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Notes of a Desolate Man by Chu T'ien-wen (English) Hardcover Book
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- ISBN-13
- 9780231116084
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- ISBN
- 9780231116084
- Book Title
- Notes of a Desolate Man
- Item Length
- 0.9in
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Fiction
- Topic
- Asian / General, Lgbt / Gay, General
- Item Width
- 0.6in
- Item Weight
- 14 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 184 Pages
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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 activism, and eventual death; the fragility of romantic love; the awesome power of eros; the solace of writing; the cold ennui of a younger generation enthralled only by video games; and life on the edge of mainstream Taiwanese society. His feverish journey through forests of metaphor and allusion--from Fellini and Lévi-Strauss to classical Chinese poetry--serves as a litany protecting him from the ravages of time and finitude. Impressive in scope and detail, Notes of a Desolate Man employs the motif of its characters' marginalized sexuality to highlight Taiwan's vivid and fragile existence on the periphery of mainland China. Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin's masterful translation brings Chu T'ien-wen's lyrical and inventive pastiche of political, poetic, and sexual desire to the English-speaking world.
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
023111608x
ISBN-13
9780231116084
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038289757
Product Key Features
Book Title
Notes of a Desolate Man
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Asian / General, Lgbt / Gay, General
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Literary Criticism, Fiction
Number of Pages
184 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
14 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pl2852.T48h9313 1999
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College Graduate Student
Reviews
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., The novel in poetic translation is in itself a joy to read, writing that inspires awe for its intellectual scope and its sensitive portrayal of gay men and their lives -- and deaths., "A stylish meditation on marginalization, radicalization and decay." -- Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, "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, "A fascinating glimpse into one man's experience of Taiwanese gay life." -- Susan Vreeland, San Francisco Chronicle, "The novel in poetic translation is in itself a joy to read, writing that inspires awe for its intellectual scope and its sensitive portrayal of gay men and their lives -- and deaths." -- Charles-Gene McDaniel, Libido, The novel in poetic translation is in itself a joy to read, writing that inspires awe for its intellectual scope and its sensitive portrayal of gay men and their lives--and deaths., "Superb.... A strong and perceptive voice now arises from Taiwan.... Notes of a Desolate Manis 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 for its intellectual scope and its sensitive portrayal of gay men and their lives-and deaths.
Copyright Date
1999
Lccn
98-032400
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Series
Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan Ser.
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