Wang Wenxing, “Back to Back” With the Present

Auteur:

Sandrine Marchand

Date de publication:

01 Juin 2009

Mots-clefs:

Back
novel
Ren
tiempo (cronología)
Time
Time (périodique. - New York)
temps
Tiempo
années
Work
Trabajo
Family
familia
Families
catastrophe
collection
fiction
Roman
Nouvelles
pozo
pozos
Publications
Style
Escritura
Writing
écriture
exploración
book
comparación
Comparison
Comparaison (linguistique)
Sounds
Sons
Effets sonores
Monologue
Synthesis
Synthèse
Literary movements
Mouvements littéraires
Movimientos literarios
Nineteen sixties
Années 1960
Nineteen seventies
Années 1970
literature
literatura
Hand
Main
Manos
langage
Language
Compréhension
fishing
Pêche sportive
Pêche
Pesca
Pesca deportiva
pueblo
Pueblos
Characters
Personnages
sociedad
Character
Caractère
Carácter
exegesis
Especulación
Spéculation
lecteur
mundo
science
Sciences
Progrès scientifique et technique
ciencia
Ciencias
Monologue théâtral
well
exploration
analyse comparative
village
society
exégèse
world

Publié ici :

20 Mai 2010

Mis à jour le :

18 Juin 2017

Domaines:

Littérature

Langue de publication:

Français

Wang Wenxing's new novel Backed Against The Sea (Beihai de ren), was written over two different periods of time and took twenty-five years to complete. It is different from his previous work, from his novel Family Catastrophe (Jiabian), which made him famous because of the moral scandal it caused, from his collection of stories, as well as from his recent publications, two collections of sanwen on various subjects. This new text breaks away from a style of writing which, despite the carefully thought-out daring of his first novel, remained classical, and here becomes an experimental exploration of shifts of meaning within the framework of the novel. This book has been compared to Joyce's Ulysses, but such a comparison is of no help in following the exhausting rhythmic shifts between words and sounds that govern this novel, which is in the form of a long monologue. It initiates a synthesis of the two literary movements of the 1960s and 1970s, modernist literature on the one hand, since it pursues a search for language which challenges understanding, and nativist literature on the other, in that it is set in a small fishing village and its characters are miserable wretches on the fringe of society. One can also perceive in this very combination the hybrid character peculiar to post-modern literature. It is a novel that prompts exegesis. It is more aimed at academic speculation than at the ordinary reader. However, it is not so much the writing of discontinuity, of the collapse which conforms to post-modern norms, as writing which, taking on the picaresque genre—the un-idealistic novel par excellence—not only describes a laughable world, but mocks itself as well. Moreover, in the author's own words, this book, which rejects any form of categorisation, is “a picture of the human condition with universal applicability”.

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