Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu

Modern Tales of a Chinese Romantic

von Xu Xu

224 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Introducing the works of a major Chinese writer—liberal, cosmopolitan, and lyrically exotic—once banned but now embraced, and newly "discovered" in the West. Xu Xu 徐訏 (1908-1980) was one of the most widely read Chinese authors of the 1930s to 1960s. His popular urban gothic tales, his exotic spy fiction, and his quasi-existentialist love stories full of nostalgia and melancholy offer today’s readers an unusual glimpse into China’s turbulent twentieth century. These translations--spanning a period of some thirty years, from 1937 until 1965--bring to life some of Xu Xu’s most representative short fictions from prewar Shanghai and postwar Hong Kong and Taiwan.The Afterword illustrates that Xu Xu’s idealistic tendencies in defiance of the politicization of art exemplify his affinity with European romanticism and link his work to a global literary modernity.

• Themen: Belletristik Besonderheiten Kurzgeschichten
• ISBN: 9781611720556
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.05.2020
• Größe: 213 x 139 mm
• Verlag: Stone Bridge Press
• Kommentiert von: Frederik H Green
• Übersetzung: Frederik H Green