The Charm of Irony: a Study of Contemporary Chinese Novels Since 1978
by Chen Hengjin
About This Novel
This book sorts out and examines Chinese contemporary novels since 1978 from the perspective of irony, and focuses on the novels of five writers: Wang Meng, Wang Shuo, Wang Xiaobo, Liu Zhenyun and Yan Lianke. From the inside to the outside, from grand history to the grassroots, it analyzes the role of irony in the process of deconstructing revolutionary political discourse. Five representative forms of irony and ironic emotions: protection in questioning, pleasure after subversion, pursuit in laughter, confusion in alienation, and tenderness in edge, explore the ironic features of novels that coexist in multiple symbiosis in contemporary Chinese novels since 1978 in a discourse system in which enlightenment and subversion mutually penetrate and dissolve.
What Readers Think
Rating
Community(0)
Rating
Community(0)
