Dialogues in Paradise
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Book Overview
The thirteen stories of Dialogues in Paradise are eloquent in a way the West associates with both the modern and the ancient: the dark oracles of Aeschylus and Sophocles, the paranoid mystery of Kafka, the moving stream of Woolf. The work of Can Xue (a pseudonym of Changsa writer Deng Xiao-hua) renews our consciousness of the long tradition of the irrational in our literature, where dreams and reality constitute one territory, its borders open, the passage back and forth barely discernible. She fuses lyrical purity with the darkest visions of the grotesque and the result is a unique literary experience.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0810108313
ISBN13:9780810108318
Release Date:June 1989
Publisher:Northwestern University Press
Length:173 Pages
Weight:0.54 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.2" x 7.8"
Customer Reviews
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Abstract, beautiful
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
I had to read this "short" story for my high school sophomore honors english class a few months ago. We were studying literature with non-Western characteristics. Such as the plot line, which was not the Aristotle mountain (rising action, falling action). Months later, I am still remembering lines and sections from this book. Can Xue's writing has affected not only my own writing, but my outlook on other literature, poetry, and art. I would definitly call this book abstract, beautiful and worth owning.
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