Earth, Mountains and Rivers: Selected Prose by Mao Dun
by Mao Dun
About This Novel
This book contains more than 60 essences of prose by Mao Dun, a master of modern literature, including "Praise to Poplars", "Skylight", "Remembering Xian Xinghai", "Mountains and Rivers of the Earth", "Winter", etc. Some of the chapters have been selected as Chinese textbooks for primary and secondary schools and are literary classics that accompany the growth of a generation. Mao Dun's prose has formed a distinctive narrative method. He is good at using narrative techniques of using objects to express emotions and using reality to set off imaginary. His writing is delicate, profound and powerful. This book is both a "sketchbook" depicting the mountains and rivers of the motherland and a "notebook" reproducing Mao Dun's life history. It fully demonstrates Mr. Mao Dun's profound literary attainments and is a rare treasure in modern Chinese prose.
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Official(1)Scraped 16d ago
Recently, I feel more and more that short stories or essays can best reflect a writer's literary level. If a writer only has long novels and cannot extract some paragraphs from the novels as good articles, then it is possible that the writer is just good at writing stories. This is not what I like. If there is literary content, or if there is content, we can read it over and over again; otherwise, we can just go straight to the goal, and we can almost skim it even the first time, let alone read it again and again. Mao Dun's articles are good articles and can be read over and over again. I was reading a novel about Chinese farmers written by an American (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature) before, and I felt that it was a bit out of step, and that what was said was not so relevant or true. The text is also in Western style, and the key is that Western-style text can also have content. There should be many famous writers in contemporary China who are good at writing stories, but are they too superficial or only tell stories without enriching the content? However, Red and Black may be this kind of work. In the end, everyone judged it as a great work, and I need to work hard to read it in the future, although I personally feel that it is somewhat lacking in content or literary quality.
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Official(1)Scraped 16d ago
Recently, I feel more and more that short stories or essays can best reflect a writer's literary level. If a writer only has long novels and cannot extract some paragraphs from the novels as good articles, then it is possible that the writer is just good at writing stories. This is not what I like. If there is literary content, or if there is content, we can read it over and over again; otherwise, we can just go straight to the goal, and we can almost skim it even the first time, let alone read it again and again. Mao Dun's articles are good articles and can be read over and over again. I was reading a novel about Chinese farmers written by an American (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature) before, and I felt that it was a bit out of step, and that what was said was not so relevant or true. The text is also in Western style, and the key is that Western-style text can also have content. There should be many famous writers in contemporary China who are good at writing stories, but are they too superficial or only tell stories without enriching the content? However, Red and Black may be this kind of work. In the end, everyone judged it as a great work, and I need to work hard to read it in the future, although I personally feel that it is somewhat lacking in content or literary quality.
