A Lifetime of Literary Treasures: Fifty Essays That Influenced Me. Foreign Edition (Jia Pingwa)

Author: (English) Russell
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: For a long time, I used to boast that China is a great nation of prose. But when I read a lot of foreign prose—translated prose, of course—most of them are works by world-class literary masters. Their collected works are a high-end and luxurious banquet. These writers are almost famous for their novels, and their prose can better reveal another side of their brilliance.
I say that China can be called a great nation of prose because we are a small nation of novels. I am grateful to those translators for opening a window for us, allowing us to see mountains beyond mountains and heavens beyond heavens. Fifty Famous Essays That Influenced Me has compiled a reader of modern and contemporary Chinese prose. This foreign prose reader was written within the scope of translations provided by some translators, and most of the works collected are by world-class literary masters. Their collected works are a high-end and luxurious banquet. These writers are almost famous for their novels, and their prose can better reveal another side of their brilliance.