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A brief sampling:. Nowadays, even the most passive and witless person cannot help but become an entrepreneur. Brothers is a symphony of many movements, and the novel shifts registers to both comic and tragic effect so often that the endless oscillation between the hilarious, the malicious, the tragic, and the improbable becomes a type of continuity itself—history as an emotional rollercoaster.
In the latter chapters leading up to the beauty pageant, the narrative passage of time accelerates to convey a growing sense of the surreal. Earlier reviewers have nevertheless tended to favor Part I, which contains a tight package of comedy, pathos, and violence in a familiar Cultural Revolution setting.
Part II has attracted moral objections from readers offended by its scatology, sex, misogyny, and general irreverence. Is it paradoxical to demand restraint of a work whose underlying mode is excess? And indeed, one can tick off a list of Rabelaisian elements, including scatology, sex, a parodic and profane linguistic stew, and an air of merry effervescence.
The sacred cows may be different than those of the French Renaissance, but the rhetoric of excess and theme of universal degradation are similar.
This is partly a structural issue: the contrasting trajectories of Baldy Li and Song Gang echoed to a degree by the ascendant Writer Liu and abjected Poet Zhao are simply too stark, and the dualistic narrative framework two eras, two brothers, life and death, exultation and despair, revolution and commercialization, virginity and licentiousness, etc.
But heavy-handedness is occasionally a matter of narration too, as, for example, in Chapter The narrator remarks:. The effect is patronizing, but more to the point it is unnecessary, since the contrast is clear enough. Miti, saghe e leggende. Narrativa contemporanea. Narrativa di genere. Narrativa femminile. Narrativa letteraria.
Narrativa storica. Racconti e antologie.
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