Mo Yan’s Radish
Between the Real and the Surreal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21728952 |
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| Authors | Xiaoyue Li (0000-0001-8059-1127, Purdue University West Lafayette), Xuefang Feng (0000-0002-6294-8345, Purdue University West Lafayette) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-09 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | CLCWeb Comparative Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1481-4374 • E-ISSN: 1481-4374 |
| Publisher | Purdue University (bepress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.7771/1481-4374.3283 |
| OpenAlex | W3005122145 |
| Language | EN |
In their article “Mo Yan’s Radish: Between the Real and the Surreal” Xiaoyue Li and Xuefang Feng argue that Radish, a novella written by Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan skillfully combines realism with surrealism, the flexible swing between which is made possible by the choice of children’s perspective, and the effect is too significant to be ignored. Their analysis concludes that the transparent golden radish symbolizes humanity, the lack of which projects the protagonist’ sufferings, and that the surrealist description of the radish reveals the magic function of humanity in brightening up life in times of miseries
Art · Art history · Astrophysics · Humanity · Literature · Novella · Physics · Theology · Visual arts · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Philosophy · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Highly cited | No |
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