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Ge Fei

Autor de The Invisibility Cloak

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Nombre canónico
Ge Fei
Nombre legal
刘勇
Otros nombres
格非
Fecha de nacimiento
1964
Género
male
Nacionalidad
China
Lugar de nacimiento
Dantu, Jiangsu, China
Educación
Tsinghua University (PhD)
Premios y honores
Lu Xun Literary Prize (2014)
Mao Dun Prize (Fiction, 2015)

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I am so very confused about everything I have read or heard about his novella...and the novella itself, but I absolutely loved it!

Normally when I feel like I have read a different book to everyone else, it's because I has a bad time, but in this instance I had a wonderful experience I just don't think so many of the words applied to this story relate to it and/ or my experience with it.

Hero? The protagonist is a fascinating, but contemptuous arsehole.
Comic? I mean, it's amusing, but it doesn't seem explicitly comedic. It's at least as tragic as it is comic, probably a lot more.
Surreal/ Irreality/ Magic Realism? Am I missing something? I love and read a lot of works these labels apply to, but I don't see how they apply here. Is it really because China, but capitalist, because, if that's the case, what we call reality must blow a lot of people's minds.

I'm truly scratching my head. I'm so confused.

Regardless, I found this an incredibly entertaining and wonderfully written tale of failed love and bungling through life on the edge. There are definitely elements that reminded me of High Fidelity, with the focus on the audio equipment, rather than the music itsel, but this was very much it's own thing and less about pandering to the frail male ego, I think. Both protagonists have a rather deplorable and entitled view on women, but I think we're supposed to see that as more of a negative here, maybe?

Definitely made me excited to read more Ge Fei.
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RatGrrrl | 7 reseñas más. | Dec 21, 2023 |
meh. read it for 92nd street Y class. had some moments, but maybe it was translation... maybe my ignorance re Chinese literature... more likely I just didn't like the first person narrator
 
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maryroberta | 7 reseñas más. | Mar 29, 2022 |
4.5 stars (may change to 5 stars later? Must think about it)

This novel is a retelling of the Peach Blossom Spring myth/fable, but placing the events in the late 19th/early 20th century, around the rebellions and fall of the last Chinese dynasty. I did a fair amount of googling and found a short translation of the myth. I would love to discuss how this is a retelling (I have thoughts but could be totally wrong)--also, how does [book:The Peach Blossom Fan|22748019] fit into this tradition?
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But this book. I loved it. It is the first in a trilogy and I want to read the rest but they are not out in English. This is a family/town saga, a look at revolutionaries and revolutions, a look at women of different classes. It is modern, but the storytelling (or maybe it's the translations?) have echoes of the storytelling in the Chinese classics [book:The Water Margin|552988] and [book:Monkey: The Journey to the West|100237].

Here, though, the main character is a woman. Around 14 when the story begins, Lu Xiumi is the only child of landowners. She has a tutor (she is the only girl in class), her best friend is her household's youngest servant. We meet her neighbors, parents, servants, and other residents of Puji. On the way to her wedding, the caravan in attacked and she is kidnapped by bandits--setting her life on a very different trajectory.

The author also has asides in the story (here presented as footnotes) that imply the characters were real people. They were not--at least per google. But I wonder how many of those asides will come to play in the next 2 novels in the trilogy?
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Dreesie | otra reseña | Oct 15, 2021 |
Nyky-Kiinaan sijoittuva kiinnostava romaani, joka kasvaa mittaansa isommaksi ja jonka sopivan avoimeksi jäävä loppuratkaisu pisti mielikuvituksen liikkeelle. Teos sopisi hyvin myös lukupiirille, veikkaan että juuri noista avoimeksi jäävistä kysymyksistä syntyisi keskustelua, sen lisäksi että täällä hieman vieraan kultttuurin kuvaus on jo itsessään kiinnostavaa.
 
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TarjaRi | 7 reseñas más. | Aug 31, 2021 |

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