Anyone read any 阎连科 / Yan Lianke？
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roddy -
I've been reading a bit about Yan Lianke and it looks like his stuff might be quite interesting.
He's had a few books banned, a few published, and admits to censoring what he writes in order to
get it published. The description of Serve the People didn't really interest me - desecration of
revolutionary images, sex, yawn - but he's won a couple of prestigious awards so I thought I might
give his short stories a look.
Anyone read any or got any advice on where to start? I was going to look at 年月日, a short
story collection which won the Lu Xun award in 2000.
Here's a Wikipedia link for you, just because I can, and more on ESWN
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zhwj -
I've only read his long stuff, I'm afraid. He himself considers Serve the People a minor work.
Banning does weird things to aesthetic standards. But the novel 受活 is great fun and does
interesting things with local culture and extensive footnotes.
He's not universally praised, however. A couple of years ago I was talking to Fan Wen 范稳,
author of bestselling novels about foreigners in western Sichuan and Tibet, and he didn't consider
Yan Lianke a real writer, just someone who was playing with words.
Tell us how his short stuff turns out.
roddy -
年月日 was out of stock on amazon.cn, so ended up ordering 受活 - will see how I get on with
it.
roddy -
收活 turned up today - a quick flick through seems quite promising, there's some interesting
stuff in the footnotes. Not sure when I'll get to it as 三体 was in the same delivery, which is
much more tempting, and I've also (and don't ask me how, I don't know) ended up reading a chunk of
曾子墨's autobiography. She's started to really irritate me, but I'm far enough in I think I
might just finish out of bloody-mindedness.
roddy -
About a third of the way through, really enjoying it. The village scenes are great fun, without
turning anyone into comedy peasants - or for that matter comedy cripples, the back story of the
village and how 茅枝婆 ended up there (just finished the footnote on 入社) is keeping me
interested, and I suspect there's going to be a whole load of enjoyment to be had from the
茅枝婆 / 县长 conflict.
Also loving the writing - I find the village comes across very vividly and some of the images - a
man dressed up being like southern bananas on a northern date tree; post-snowfall trees holding
great white umbrellas - are arresting. The dialogue is also well done.
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