Il grande drago rosso si è risvegliato. Divenuta locomotiva economica mondiale, la Cina turbocapitalista è artefice e while victims of the greatest migration ever took place in the world. Millions of people are leaving the heart of the country because of poor farming villages to reach the vast and chaotic city. Industrialization is wiping out the old ways, changing the rhythms of a company with a long tradition, to make way for a lifestyle that will be increasingly influenced by Western economies matrix. We rely on writing one of the largest contemporary Chinese authors, Mo Yan, in order to better understand the tradition that the immense population of Beijing is likely to be lost in a maze of concrete and factories. Reviewing briefly the life of Mo Yan - born in 1955 in a remote and poor village of Shadong - We can observe that after the Maoist Cultural Revolution, the young writer has tried in various works: the herdsman, the factory worker, and last soldier in the army. Over the years, however, Mo Yan has never abandoned his passion for literature, composing stories with feverish persistence. His major work is Red Sorghum, a great epic story that takes up the stories and legends of the Chinese people - transposed to the big screen by director Zhang Yimou and winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Festival in 1988. Affected, according to the writer, from Faulkner and Marquez, we also note that Mo Yan is the founder of a literary movement known in China as Search of Roots. Thus, it The man who bred cats we find characteristic of the Chinese pen. First, it appears that the search for a lyric writing, able to evoke a primitive nature. And yet, in this text we find the legends and stories as a real search and peculiarities of the writer. The combination of the natural with the legendary gives shape to a "fantastic realism" where reality, sometimes violent, is veiled and softened by the magic component. Is it irrational element, which flows almost nell'onirico, not to allow the reader to determine whether the story told may be true or likely. An example We find this style of narrative vividly in the story that gives the title to the collection, The man who bred cats , where, in an archaic and rural China, a boy is capable of strange and mysterious charm and dancing to the her cats. But this "fantastic realism" is present in all nine stories that make up the collection published by Einaudi , where you can hear the voices of a Chinese original in Mo Yan was able to hear sounds.
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