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Notes of a Desolate Man
T'Ien-Wen Chu
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Description for Notes of a Desolate Man
Hardback. This postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important novels to emerge from Taiwan in recent memory. Translator(s): Goldblatt, Howard; Lin, Sylvia Li-Chun. Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 408.
Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan. The narrator, Xiao Shao, recollects a series of friends and lovers, as he watches his childhood friend, Ah Yao, succumb to complications from AIDS. The brute fact of Ah Yao's death focuses Shao's simultaneously erudite and erotic reflections magnetically on the core theme of mortality. By turns humorous and despondent, the narrator struggles to come to terms with Ah Yao's risky lifestyle, radical political ... Read more
Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan. The narrator, Xiao Shao, recollects a series of friends and lovers, as he watches his childhood friend, Ah Yao, succumb to complications from AIDS. The brute fact of Ah Yao's death focuses Shao's simultaneously erudite and erotic reflections magnetically on the core theme of mortality. By turns humorous and despondent, the narrator struggles to come to terms with Ah Yao's risky lifestyle, radical political ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Series
Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231116084
SKU
V9780231116084
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About T'Ien-Wen Chu
Chu T'ien-Wen has published fifteen books-novels, stories, memoirs, and film scripts-and has won five major literary prizes. She also received the best script award at both the Venice and Tokyo film festivals. Her most highly acclaimed works are Fin de Siecle Splendor and Notes of a Desolate Man, which was published in Taiwan in 1994. Howard Goldblatt is professor ... Read more
Reviews for Notes of a Desolate Man
Superb... A strong and perceptive voice now arises from Taiwan... Notes of a Desolate Man is a novel of questions and imponderables, not so much a cry of pain as the lively, sharp-witted record of it.
Peter Kurth New York Times Book Review The novel in poetic translation is in itself a joy to read, writing that inspires awe ... Read more
Peter Kurth New York Times Book Review The novel in poetic translation is in itself a joy to read, writing that inspires awe ... Read more