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Название книги: Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused – Fiction From Today
Автор(ы): Howard Goldblatt (editor)
Жанр: Современная проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Chairman-Mao-Would-Not-Be-Amused-_-Fiction-From-Today-163716.html
Howard Goldblatt – Introduction
I sometimes wonder what Chairman Mao, who almost single-handedly launched, then single-mindedly derailed, the Chinese Revolution, might have thought of the literature published since his death in 1976. Taking the long view, I think he would have approved of "scar literature," a cathartic body of writing that voices the sufferings of the Cultural Revolution, for its success in pacifying the people at a difficult historical moment; after all, if, for the time being, they could not be united under the banner of permanent, violent revolution, why not keep them busy airing their collective discontent, mainly with one another? Mao knew the value and limitations of literature and writers, and he trusted neither. Yet he knew how to harness their power; over the years, he had used literature and the arts both to bring down his enemies-most of them erstwhile friends-and to keep the people's at
Название книги: Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused – Fiction From Today
Автор(ы): Howard Goldblatt (editor)
Жанр: Современная проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Chairman-Mao-Would-Not-Be-Amused-_-Fiction-From-Today-163716.html
Howard Goldblatt – Introduction
I sometimes wonder what Chairman Mao, who almost single-handedly launched, then single-mindedly derailed, the Chinese Revolution, might have thought of the literature published since his death in 1976. Taking the long view, I think he would have approved of "scar literature," a cathartic body of writing that voices the sufferings of the Cultural Revolution, for its success in pacifying the people at a difficult historical moment; after all, if, for the time being, they could not be united under the banner of permanent, violent revolution, why not keep them busy airing their collective discontent, mainly with one another? Mao knew the value and limitations of literature and writers, and he trusted neither. Yet he knew how to harness their power; over the years, he had used literature and the arts both to bring down his enemies-most of them erstwhile friends-and to keep the people's at
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