Several have been adopted for film, including Red Sorghum in 1987, the debut feature of the director Zhang Yimou 張藝謀, which won the top award at the Berlin Film Festival and introduced the artistic visions of both Zhang and Mo Yan to a global audience. Mo Yan is a prolific writer who is a household name in China his novels sell hundreds of thousands of copies. Now the metaphorical has become literal, children are children and the terrors are terrible, there you have the difference” (Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, 1958).įor anyone following the development of Chinese fiction in the past thirty years, the awarding of the Nobel Prize in literature to Mo Yan 莫言 in October 2012 wouldn’t have come as a surprise. The children were not children, but the sons, the heirs, the intelligentsia, and the terrors were not terrible but sent from above, apocalyptic that’s quite different. Blok says somewhere: ‘We, the children of Russia’s terrible years.’ Blok meant this in a metaphorical, figurative sense. There is a great difference between the two periods. Thus Greece gave way to Rome, and the Russian Enlightenment has become the Russian Revolution. “It has often happened in history that a lofty ideal has degenerated into crude materialism.
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