· BY SHENG KEYI TRANSLATED FROM THE CHINESE BY SHELLY BRYANT. Banned in China for its taboo allusions to the Tiananmen Square massacre, Sheng Keyi’s Death Fugue is a lyrical and explosive dystopian satire that imagines a world of manufactured existence, the erasure of personal freedom, and the perils of governmental control. · Death Fugue quantity. Buy for $ Unpublished in China, published for the first time in English by Giramondo, Death Fugue is a bold work of speculative fiction, scathing in its irony, elaborate in its use of allegory, and acute in its understanding of the power of writing. The imagination that drives it is exuberant and www.doorway.rubility: In stock. · Overview. Banned in China for its taboo allusions to the Tiananmen Square massacre, Sheng Keyi’s Death Fugue is a lyrical and explosive dystopian satire that imagines a world of manufactured existence, the erasure of personal freedom, and the perils of governmental control. One morning a nine-story tower of excrement of unknown origin appears in the center of Dayang’s capital, Brand: Restless Books.
Death Fugue. The following is excerpted from Sheng Keyi's new satirical novel, Death Fugue, translated from the Chinese by Shelly Bryant. Keyi is the author of ten novels, including Northern Girls, Death Fugue, Wild Fruit, The Metaphor Detox Centre, The Womb, and Paradise, as well as numerous short stories and novellas. But Sheng Keyi made it easy for government censors to find her. Her novel "Death Fugue" opens in the capital city of Beiping on the very day a nine-story tower of poo appears in Round Square. Banned in China for its taboo allusions to the Tiananmen Square massacre, Sheng Keyi's Death Fugue is a lyrical and explosive dystopian satire that imagines a world of manufactured existence, the erasure of personal freedom, and the perils of governmental control. One morning a nine-story tower of excrement of unknown origin appears in the.
August 3, Fiction. Literary. Literature in Translation. Banned in China for its taboo allusions to the Tiananmen Square massacre, Sheng Keyi's Death Fugue is a lyrical and dystopian satire that imagines a world of manufactured existence, the erasure of personal freedom, and the perils of governmental control. In Sheng Keyi’s absurdist novel, Death Fugue (translated by Shelly Bryant; pages; Restless Books), a tower made of feces appears in Round Square in the fictional capital of Beiping, much to the intrigue of young people who do not believe, as the government and media say, that the nine-story heap is composed of gorilla excrement. Concerned with more than sphincter logistics and scatological expertise, this excitable group demands answers from an unaccountable government. Death Fugue by Sheng Keyi (translated by Shelly Bryant) Giramondo. pp. $ AU. Published September, ISBN Death Fugue is a tale of two Chinas, but not the usual contrast of urban and rural or rich and poor in one of the world’s most unequal societies. Rather, it is a contrapuntal figuring of two opposed dreams of what China could be.
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