{"id":1428,"date":"2012-11-29T10:21:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T02:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2012-12-12T18:43:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T10:43:03","slug":"more-mo-yan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1428","title":{"rendered":"More Mo Yan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>The overlapping world of literary critics and cultural commentators is still arguing about Mo Yan<\/a> \u83ab\u8a00 and his Nobel Prize. Nobel Literature Laureate from 2009, Romanian-raised Herta M\u00fcller calls Mo Yan\u2019s win \u201ca catastrophe<\/a>\u201d because he \u201ccelebrates censorship<\/a>.\u201d And Anna Sun of the Kenyon Review<\/em> calls Mo Yan’s writing “diseased<\/a>“; as for the “shimmering poetry and brutal realism” of his writing as advertised? Sun says “only the ‘brutal realism’ is Mo Yan\u2019s; the ‘shimmering poetry’ comes from a brilliant translator\u2019s work.”<\/div>\n
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As for the translator, Howard Goldblatt’s “Memory, Speak<\/a>” is online at Chinese Literature Today<\/em>. Chinese Literature Today<\/em> co-founder Jonathan Stalling responds to criticism of Mo Yan with “Mo Yan and the Technicians of Culture<\/a>.” And an audio interview with Mo Yan has been posted at Granta<\/em><\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Finally, Tim Parks doesn’t mention Mo Yan in “A Game Without Rules<\/a>,” but he does say:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

For all the different styles of play in different countries and continents, football is a game whose rules can be universally applied. North Korea plays Mexico with a Swedish referee and despite one or two contested offside decisions a result is recorded and one team can pass to the next round without too much discussion. But can we feel so certain when the Swedish referee judges poems from those two countries that he will pick the right winner? Or even that there is a \u201cright\u201d winner? Or even a competition? The Mexican did not write his or her poems with the idea of getting a winning decision over the North Korean, or with a Swedish referee in mind. At least we hope not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The overlapping world of literary critics and cultural commentators is still arguing about Mo Yan \u83ab\u8a00 and his Nobel Prize. Nobel Literature Laureate from 2009, Romanian-raised Herta M\u00fcller calls Mo Yan\u2019s win \u201ca catastrophe\u201d because he \u201ccelebrates censorship.\u201d And Anna … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[865,864,19,210,189,591],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-n2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1281,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1281","url_meta":{"origin":1428,"position":0},"title":"Mo Yan wins 2012 Nobel Prize","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"October 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Mo Yan \u83ab\u8a00 has won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature--a victory for those who support global pluralism in literature prizes, for those who believe in the legacy of Faulkner and Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez in contemporary international fiction, and for those who believe in giving a Nobel to a Chinese writer\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.smearedtype.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/MoYan.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1687,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1687","url_meta":{"origin":1428,"position":1},"title":"Ever Mo Yan","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"March 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Spiegel Online interviews Mo Yan, who says \"I am guilty.\" The Guardian writes that \"Mo Yan dismisses 'envious' Nobel critics.\" Mo Yan writes that \"Good Literature Should Let Readers Discover Themselves\" One \"Mo reason for culture promotion\" The Complete Review notices Mo Yan has more than one agent with \"full\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn2.spiegel.de\/images\/image-466055-galleryV9-ntfn.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1501,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1501","url_meta":{"origin":1428,"position":2},"title":"Still More Mo Yan","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"January 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"At ChinaFile Shelley Wing Chan discusses her enthusiasm over Mo Yan, which led to her book A Subversive Voice in China: The Fictional World of Mo Yan. 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