Dialogues in Paradise
by Can Xue
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The thirteen stories of Dialogues in Paradise are eloquent in a way the West associates with both the modern and the ancient: the dark oracles of Aeschylus and Sophocles, the paranoid mystery of Kafka, the moving stream of Woolf. The work of Can Xue (a pseudonym of Changsa writer Deng Xiao-hua) renews our consciousness of the long tradition of the irrational in our literature, where dreams and reality constitute one territory, its borders open, the passage back and forth barely discernible. show more She fuses lyrical purity with the darkest visions of the grotesque and the result is a unique literary experience. show lessTags
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Strange and beautiful stories, unlike anything else I've ever read.
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Common Knowledge
- Original title
- 天堂里的对话
- Original publication date
- 1988
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 895.1 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Literatures of East and Southeast Asia Chinese
- LCC
- PL2912 .A5174 .D5313 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Chinese language and literature Chinese literature Individual authors and works
- BISAC
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- Languages
- English, French, Italian
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 3
