Seeking Another Voice -- I Read Foreign Literature: I Read Foreign Literature

Author: Yu Zhongxian
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: Do Chinese writers love reading foreign works? The answer should be affirmative. Whether our novelists, essayists, poets, or critics admit it or not, they are actually greedily absorbing the nutrition of foreign literature. Mo Yan frankly admits that "translators are of immense merit," and Tang Min passionately recalls his youth when he "eloped" with Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," which is a clear example.