I’ve been reading a bunch of Japanese Literature. Authors such as Ryu Murukami, Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe and Kobo Abe and many others I’m forgetting. Is there any Chinese Literature like them or is it completely different? Also are there any weird Chinese books similar to Ryu Murukami and Kobo Abe?
Thanks for suggestions and help!
by Nyarthu
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I have been looking for this as well. Every time I have tried to read modern Chinese literature I pick up a highly recommended book and end up with something that reads like it was cowritten by the CCP. It just might be my own western biases projecting that.
I’m a big fan of Mo Yan. Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out and POW! are delightful. Big Breasts and Wide Hips, Frog and Red Sorghum are great too.
I’m not sure if you only want translated literature, but if you’d be interested in an unusual novel by a Chinese American writer who lived in China for a while and wrote about a mix of Chinese history and modern day Los Angeles, you might want to check out The Emperor & the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang