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Poet Zhang Yonglin is sentenced to a labor camp he ironically describes as a haven amidst the hysteria of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. After he marries a woman he had seen eight years earlier, the story becomes, on one level, an analogy between his temporary sexual impotence and the postion of intellectuals. A year later he is ready to abandon his wife and escape from the camp. Cameo appearances by philosophic and literary figures (Marx and Meng-tz, Othello and Song Ji) and discussing China and sex allow the incorporation of non-novelistic elements while indulging in gallows humor.
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De vrouw in het riet, Zhang Xianliang, Rintje Pieter Eelke Sybesma
- Language
- Released
- 1988
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- De vrouw in het riet
- Language
- Dutch
- Publisher
- Het Wereldvenster
- Released
- 1988
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 229
- ISBN10
- 9026943334
- ISBN13
- 9789026943331
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Asia, China
- Rating
- 3.6 out of 5
- Description
- Poet Zhang Yonglin is sentenced to a labor camp he ironically describes as a haven amidst the hysteria of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. After he marries a woman he had seen eight years earlier, the story becomes, on one level, an analogy between his temporary sexual impotence and the postion of intellectuals. A year later he is ready to abandon his wife and escape from the camp. Cameo appearances by philosophic and literary figures (Marx and Meng-tz, Othello and Song Ji) and discussing China and sex allow the incorporation of non-novelistic elements while indulging in gallows humor.