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Backed Against the Sea (Cornell East Asia, No. 67) (Cornell East Asia Series) [Paperback]

Wang Wen-Hsing (Author)

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Book Description

Series: Cornell East Asia Series | Publication Date: September 1993

Written as the ludicrous and disturbing ramblings of an errant, pseudo-intellectual urbanite secluding himself from the underworld in an impoverished coastal village of Taiwan in the early 1960's, this novel prompted the first critical discussion of postmodernism in Chinese fiction and still stands as the most provocative and innovative narrative published in Taiwan over the past two decades.

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Chinese --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Paperback: 131 pages
Publisher: East Asia Program Cornell University (September 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0939657678
ISBN-13: 978-0939657674
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,168,902 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent example of experimental fiction., July 21, 1997

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This review is from: Backed Against the Sea (Cornell East Asia, No. 67) (Cornell East Asia Series) (Hardcover)

I read this book in a class on Modern Chinese Literature, and it was the best book in the class. Truthfully, it was not for everyone. I know at least one member of the class who found the style daunting and difficult to swallow. But I loved it. Wang is a professor in Taiwan of modern European literature, and it shows. Traces of many modernist and post-modernist techniques show up in Backed Against the Sea, as well as a complex take on things uniqulely Chinese and Taiwanese. If you like Chinese fiction, European modernism and/or post-modernism, I highly recommend this book. It is not an easy read, but I find it well worth the pleasure

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