Mo Yan

Mo Yan , born in 1956 with Gaomi, Province of Shandong, is a Chinese writer.

Biography

Guan Moye 管谟业 was born into 1956 within a country family from Shandong.

From 1959 to 1961, its family knows the hunger because of the Grand Step ahead. In 1966, during the Cultural revolution, it is classified among the " bad élements" and returned school. When he manages to integrate has 20 years the Popular Armée with Release, he feels released. He then continues studies in a school of the army, then at the university of Beida, of which he is graduate in 1991.

In 1981, it publishes its first novel, Radis of Crystal (透明的红萝卜 Touming of hong luobo ), and takes the pen name Mo Yan, 莫言, " that which does not speak pas". Its recognition is immediate, but it is only with its Clan of the Sorghum (红高粱 Hong Gaoliang ), which will be door with the screen under the name of " sorghum rouge" by Zhang Yimou in 1986, qu ' it will reach its current notoriety. He resigns of the army in 1997, to lay out of more than freedom of creation.

Topics

It is one of the most famous writers in China and abroad today. Its style is characterized by its very free treatment of topics like the sex, the capacity, the policy describing without turnings but not without humor the psychic and physical meanders of contemporary China. Its intelligence and its interpretation of contemporary China undoubtedly explain why it still censured forever (except for certain passages at the time of the first editions of Beaux centres, beautiful buttocks).

Works

Some eighty novels, tests and news compose its work.

A part is translated into French:

the clan of the sorghum - Actes Sud, 1993
the thirteen steps (十三步 drunk Shisan) - Editions of the Threshold, 1995
the crystal radish - Editions Philippe Picquier, 1998
country of alcohol (酒国 Jiu guo) - Editions of the Threshold, 2000
the herbivorous clan (食草家族 Shicao jiazu)
the red forest (红树林 Hong shulin)
Torment of the sandal (檀香刑 Tanxiang xing), 2001 - Selected for the Price Mao Dun - Editions of the Threshold, 2006
Explosion - Editions Characters, 2004
Beautiful centres, beautiful buttocks (Fengru feitun) - Editions of the Threshold, 2004
the Chart with the Treasury (Cangbao you) - Editions Philippe Picquier, 2004
Child of iron - Editions of the Threshold, 2004
monotonous chant of paradisiac garlic - Editions of the Threshold, 2005
the Master has humor more and more - Editions of the Threshold, 2006
the building site - Editions of the Threshold, 2007
joy - Editions Philippe Picquier, 2007

External bonds

Of the comments of reading of several books of Yan Mo.
Chronic of a Mo Yan novel: Beautiful centres, beautiful buttocks.
Interview of Mo Yan in Humanity in 2004.

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