MO YAN : UM INTELECTUAL DO CAMPO, DA TERRA NATAL E DO MUNDO故鄉 \ 世界與大地的說書人 / 莫言論
The article discusses Mo Yan (莫言) as an intellectual “from the countryside, the homeland, and the world,” arguing that his writing results from the articulation of rural experience, institutional formation, and the creative appropriation of Western literary models. The author contends that the devel...
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| description | The article discusses Mo Yan (莫言) as an intellectual “from the countryside, the homeland, and the world,” arguing that his writing results from the articulation of rural experience, institutional formation, and the creative appropriation of Western literary models. The author contends that the development of Chinese fiction since the late 1970s has accompanied profound social and cultural transformations, in a process comparable to economic modernization: through learning, imitation, and borrowing, a renewing vitality was consolidated, finding its highest exponent in Mo Yan. Methodologically, the analysis proceeds by way of biographical-professional contextualization and an interpretive reading of early-career works, highlighting “The Transparent Carrot” (透 明的胡籮蔔, 1985), conceived from a dreamlike experience and structured by the childhood sensitivity of its protagonist, Heihai (“dark boy”). It concludes that the narrative, episodic and deliberately lacunar, mobilizes an impressionism capable of transforming poverty, hunger, and displacement into psychological density, revealing symbolic relations between figures and objects in the narrated universe. Thus, Mo Yan reconfigures rural memory into a transnational literary language, converting the “land” into a device of imagination and of the world. |
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| spelling | MO YAN : UM INTELECTUAL DO CAMPO, DA TERRA NATAL E DO MUNDO故鄉 \ 世界與大地的說書人 / 莫言論 The article discusses Mo Yan (莫言) as an intellectual “from the countryside, the homeland, and the world,” arguing that his writing results from the articulation of rural experience, institutional formation, and the creative appropriation of Western literary models. The author contends that the development of Chinese fiction since the late 1970s has accompanied profound social and cultural transformations, in a process comparable to economic modernization: through learning, imitation, and borrowing, a renewing vitality was consolidated, finding its highest exponent in Mo Yan. Methodologically, the analysis proceeds by way of biographical-professional contextualization and an interpretive reading of early-career works, highlighting “The Transparent Carrot” (透 明的胡籮蔔, 1985), conceived from a dreamlike experience and structured by the childhood sensitivity of its protagonist, Heihai (“dark boy”). It concludes that the narrative, episodic and deliberately lacunar, mobilizes an impressionism capable of transforming poverty, hunger, and displacement into psychological density, revealing symbolic relations between figures and objects in the narrated universe. Thus, Mo Yan reconfigures rural memory into a transnational literary language, converting the “land” into a device of imagination and of the world. Instituto Cultural de Macau Macau Review of Culture Articles 2013 Qiu Huadong |
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| title_short | MO YAN : UM INTELECTUAL DO CAMPO, DA TERRA NATAL E DO MUNDO故鄉 \ 世界與大地的說書人 / 莫言論 |
| title_sort | mo yan : um intelectual do campo, da terra natal e do mundo故鄉 \ 世界與大地的說書人 / 莫言論 |
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