Big breasts and fat buttocks: eulogizing the meaning of life and great motherhood
Publishing House: China Workers Publishing House
Call number: I247.59/3576
Content abstract: Breastful breasts and fat buttocks is a novel by Mo Yan, in which the mother has eight daughters. Mother's "fat ass" gave birth to these daughters, and mother's "big breasts" nurtured these daughters. When these daughters grow up, together with their husbands, they bring only endless disasters and pains to their mothers. "Big Breasts and Fat Buttocks" is a work written by Mo Yan for his dead mother. The first draft of this 500,000-word novel took 83 days to write. In this book, the author unscrupulously uses materials related to her mother's personal experience, but her emotional experience in the book is fictional or based on the experiences of many mothers in Gaomi Northeast Township. In the preface of this book, the author wrote the words "Dedicated to Mother's Soul in Heaven". But this book is actually dedicated to all mothers in the world, just as he hopes to write the small "Gaomi Northeast Township" as a microcosm of China and even the world. Looking at the whole novel, this is a work with great strength and thickness, which contains the writer's profound thinking on life, mother and history, as well as his unique and novel thinking and exploration on social history and times. Has a strong ideological and original.
Frog: the ups and downs of the 60-year rural fertility history in New China
Publishing House: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
Call number: I 247.59/3579.438+0
Content abstract: Frog is Mo Yan's eleventh novel, which has been brewing for more than ten years, writing for four years, revising the manuscript and concentrating on creation. Published by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House in February 2009. Based on the ups and downs of rural fertility history in New China in recent 60 years, this paper tells the life experiences of rural female doctors and aunts who have been engaged in obstetrics and gynecology for more than 50 years, and describes the arduous and complicated historical process that the country has experienced to control the rapidly growing population and implement the national policy of family planning, and has successfully created a vivid and touching image of rural gynecologists. Combined with the complicated phenomenon in the process of family planning, this paper analyzes the humble, embarrassing, tangled and contradictory spiritual world of intellectuals represented by the narrator tadpole. The novel is novel and meticulous in structure, and consists of five letters written by playwright Tadpole to Japanese writer Sugiyama Yigu. The first four letters are accompanied by a long narrative about my aunt who has been a gynecologist for more than 50 years, including the life story of Tadpole himself. The fifth letter is accompanied by a drama about aunt and tadpole himself. Therefore, this is a work that skillfully integrates letters, metafiction narration and drama, which broadens the artistic expression space of the novel; It is another creative artistic attempt in Mo Yan's creation.
Song of Young Garlic: Reflecting the Living Condition of Vulnerable Groups
Publishing House: Writers Publishing House
Call number: I247.59/3572
Content abstract: The Song of Young Garlic in Paradise is a novel written by Mo Yan in 1988, which reflects the conscience of China writers and the living conditions of vulnerable groups. The novel tells a series of complicated relationships between characters and the entanglement between the government and farmers since the "garlic shoot incident" initiated by farmers. This is a masterpiece of Mo Yan's novels and pleading for the people. Based on the "young garlic shoot incident", the novel takes the life experiences of four books, Gao Ma, Jin Ju and Fang Fang as the main line, and describes the living conditions of farmers at that time and the tragic stories caused by them from multiple angles and sides. It also analyzes the backwardness of rural culture, the poverty of thought, the embarrassment of survival, and the causes of various tragedies such as "Uncle Fang died under the wheel" and "Jin Ju hanged himself".
Fatigue of life and death: ode and elegy of farmers' persistent life.
Publishing House: Writers Publishing House
Call number: I247.57/ 1972.
Content abstract: Fatigue of Life and Death is one of Mo Yan's representative works. This novel describes the historical development of rural areas in China during the 50 years from 1950 to 2000. Focusing on the heavy topic of land, this paper explains the relationship between farmers and land, and shows the life of farmers in China and their tenacious, optimistic and tenacious spirit since the founding of New China through artistic images of life and death.
The narrator of the novel is a landlord who was shot during the land reform. He thinks that although he has wealth, he is innocent, so he cries for himself in the underworld. In the novel, he constantly experienced six divisions in the wheel of karma. I am a donkey, I am a cow, I am a pig, I am a dog, I am a monkey ... Every time he reincarnated into a different animal, he never left his family and this land. It is through his eyes, specifically the eyes of various animals, that the novel observes and appreciates the changes in the countryside. The landlord finally reincarnated into a big-headed baby with a congenital terminal illness; The big-headed baby talked endlessly about all kinds of strange feelings when he was an animal, as well as the joys and sorrows of the landlord Simon and the farmer Lan Jiefang for more than half a century. Through the eyes of various animals, the novel observes and appreciates the turbulent and tragic history of rural society in China in the past 50 years. This novel is Mo Yan's artistic contribution to China's classical Zhanghui novels and the great tradition of folk narration. The six divisions in the wheel of imagination about life in Karma propped up this magnificent literary building and wrote the ode and elegy of farmers' great persistence in life. The novel Fatigue of Life and Death won the second Dream of Red Mansions Award and the first American Newman Chinese Literature Award.
Red Sorghum Family: The Tragic Dance Drama of the Heroes in the Northeast of Gaomi
Publishing House: Writers Publishing House
Call number: I247.59/357 1
Content Description: The Red Sorghum Family is the work of Mo Yan, a famous contemporary writer in China. The Red Sorghum Family consists of five parts: red sorghum, sorghum liquor, sorghum funeral, dog road and strange death.
Red Sorghum is based on the folk life of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and Gaomi Northeast Township in 1930s and 1940s. It tells the praise of Shandong life through the story between my grandmother Dai Fenglian and my grandfather Yu Zhanao. The main line of Red Sorghum is the armed attack on the Japanese army led by Grandpa Yu Zhanao, and the auxiliary line is the love story of Grandpa Yu Zhanao and Grandma Dai Fenglian. The main location of the story is Gaomi Northeast Township, which reproduces the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression era from a folk perspective and shows a strong desire for survival.
In shaping the background of the times, Mo Yan showed readers War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's early mood of the times through carnival language, including depression, desolation, sadness, joy, resistance and anger. In this complex mood, he played the melody of the times, expressing the melancholy and tragic feeling between conflict and entanglement, which brought disasters caused by social unrest and devastating injuries caused by the invasion of foreign powers. Mo Yan tried his best to carve almost all the war scenes carefully. No matter the size of the war scene, even the contest between humans and wild dogs in devouring corpses used a lot of brushstrokes, showing a bloody picture of corpses everywhere. At the intersection of these flesh and blood, Mo Yan described a piece of red sorghum as red as blood, and the whole world was red.
Sandalwood Punishment: Reproducing the Anti-colonial Struggle of Shandong Peninsula in the Late Qing Dynasty
Press: Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House
Call number: I247.59/3578
Content abstract: Sandalwood Punishment is a novel written by Mo Yan in five years. In this brilliantly structured novel, Mo Yan vividly tells the story of an epic peasant movement that took place in "Gaomi Northeast Township" when the Germans built the Ji Jiao Railway in Shandong, Yuan Shikai suppressed the Boxer Movement in Shandong, Eight-Nation Alliance captured Beijing and Cixi fled hastily.
The novel has created a large number of vivid characters, such as Sun Bing, the head of the troupe with romantic temperament, Jim, the magistrate in Gaomi with a sense of justice, Zhao Jia, the executioner who retired from the lobby of punishments, their daughter, adopted daughter and daughter-in-law, and Yuan Shikai, a cruel and cunning politician. "Sandalwood punishment" is a kind of torture similar to "burning at stake" in the west, and farmers' leaders suffer greatly. The plot of the novel focuses on the feud between the heroine Mei Niang and her father michel platini and her father-in-law.
This novel is a reaction to magical realism and western modernist novels, and also a pleasant challenge to popular historical novels. The whole book has the appeal of both elegance and popularity in folk literature and the vividness of telling stories from people. The author tells a complicated story with the flamboyant structural mode of "crested-pig's belly-leopard's tail", which is sometimes creepy and sometimes tender.
A Swinging White Dog: Mo Yan's Short Stories
Publishing House: Writers Publishing House
Call number: I247.7/3582
Content abstract: A White Dog's Swing is a short story published by Mo Yan Yu, a famous contemporary writer in China, in April 1985. In flashback, the novel tells the story of a scholar who left home for ten years and reunited with his former lover.
The novel begins with a description of the reunion of Jinghe and warmth after ten years. Jinghe, who became a university teacher, returned home dressed and became a poor and untidy ordinary village woman. Warm, a beautiful girl who can sing and dance, fell off the swing by an accident and became disabled. Finally, she married a mute, and hard farming turned her into a vulgar peasant woman. Jinghe later went to college, married the dumb people in the neighboring village and gave birth to three little dumb people. Finally, Wen tricked her husband into going to town to buy cloth, and the white dog led Jinghe to the sorghum field. Wen put forward a scene and an irresistible request, that is, he wanted a talking child. At this point, the novel came to an abrupt end. It shows the ups and downs of the warm life course in an almost cruel style. In the warm days when people used to be good at singing, they faced four dumb people who could not speak. The rude village woman "a warm eye" used to be a charming and lovely young girl. The strength of the novel comes from the ending, and the previous setbacks are all for the generation and promotion of this moment. The novel uses the usual way to describe a scholar's experience and feelings when he returns to his hometown, and uses the way of narration and recollection to alternately describe the past and the present, and characters and stories gradually emerge.
The film "Warmth" adapted from "White Dog Swings" won the Golden Kirin Award at the16th Tokyo International Film Festival.
Forty-one guns: repent of your sins and approach the sacred.
Publishing House: Writers Publishing House
Call number: I247.53/ 1092. 1
Content abstract: Mo Yan said that in Gaomi County, if a child loves to lie and especially loves to make up stories, people call him a "cannon" child. When a group of children become young people, in his memory, people can see that many things are imaginary and have many illusory elements. So Mo Yan recalled his childhood story. He was a cannon boy when he was young. Although the young man is now in his twenties, the legendary story he experienced can't stand scrutiny, and he is still a casual "cannon". So in 2003, he created the novel "Forty-one Guns". Forty-one Guns is based on the folk culture of Mo Yan's hometown Gaomi, Shandong Province and the rural reform in the early 1990s. It tells the carnival story of the protagonist Luo Xiaotong, who has grown up physically, but still stays in his youth, and reconstructs his life in his youth. This paper describes the fierce conflict between two forces and two concepts in the early stage of rural reform, reveals the fission of human nature, and writes out people's confusion and confusion in right and wrong standards and ethics. In 2004, he won the second "Chinese Literature and Media Award-Outstanding Achievement Award of the Year".
Joy: a collection of Mo Yan's novellas
Publishing House: Writers Publishing House
Call number: I247.59/3580
Content abstract: Mo Yan has written eight novellas since 1980s, including Running Water and Transparent Carrots, which were first completed in 1983, and Ball Lightning, Blonde Baby, Explosion, Joy and Blonde Baby, which made Mo Yan famous in the literary world in 1985. These novels not only have distinct artistic styles, but also have their own characteristics and explosive power. Among them, the novel Transparent Carrot successfully created an insulted and neglected image of the Black Sea. The novel Joy, narrated in the second person, describes the bitter experience and inner world of a rural middle school repeat student who still hates the land and desperately desires women, as well as his hard life with his "ugly" mother.
Wine Country: An Anti-corruption Novel Expressing Officialdom Wine Culture
Publishing House: Writers Publishing House
Call number: I247.59/3575
Content abstract: Wine Country is a masterpiece written by Mo Yan from 1989 to 1992, which pushes the edge of realistic criticism to the extreme and makes bold attempts and innovations in narrative experiments. In the novel, Ding is a special inspector of the provincial people's procuratorate. He goes to nine cities to investigate a special case. However, no one in the wine country city can resist the temptation. In the process of dealing with power, wine and women, Ding kept reminding himself not to drink, but eventually he got drunk and drowned in the toilet. The novel sharply reveals the terrible mystery of this society through the story of Ding Gou. In parallel with the story of Ding Gou 'er, there are letters between the author and Li Yidou, a literary youth in Jiuguo City, and the novel works created by Li Yidou. These novels have different styles, which can be called a "Manchu-Chinese banquet" in novel style. The French version of this book won the French "Jules Ba Tai Yong Prize for Foreign Literature" 200 1.