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Family Catastrophe: A Modernist Novel (Fiction from Modern China) (Hardcover)

by Wen-Hsing Wang (Author), Susan Wan Dolling (Translator)
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Editorial Reviews
Sung-Sheng Yvonne Chang, University of Texas, Austin
"The First English Publication of this important novel... [is] a major event in the scholarly community of Chinese literary studies."

Book Description
Wang Wen-hsing caused a sensation in Taiwan in 1972 with publication of Family Catastrophe, his first full-length novel. Many critics were outraged, called it socially irresponsible, morally corrupt, and stylistically irrational, but the novel weathered its controversial reception to become what is now widely regarded as a masterpiece in modern Chinese fiction and the benchmark of Taiwan's Modernist movement. Often described as Joycean, Family Catastrophe is significant for its stylistic and linguistic experimentation as well as for its disturbing and universal themes. It appears now in English for the first time.

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