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Currently Reading: Once On A Moonless Night by Dai Sijie, trans. Adriana Hunter. New York: Anchor Books, 2009.
Blog Post by Kimberly Beek, 2 March, 2012
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This novel was labeled Buddhist fiction by Kimberly French in her UUMagazine spring 2010 blog post “Guide to Buddhist Fiction”: http://www.uuworld.org/ideas/articles/162391.shtml
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This post is a little later than I had hoped, but for good reason. I found Dai Sijie’s novel Once On A Moonless Night rather challenging. There are so many stories within stories in this novel that I will have to read it two or three more times before I become comfortable with all of the different story lines and the ways in which they flow together. Having said this, I look forward to rereading the book. Dai Sijie is a masterful storyteller and his writing style comes to bear on all the senses such that you are beguiled into imagining something as clichéd as a sunset in completely new ways (see page 76 for a Beijing sunset described as/through vegetables). Dai’s writing ability is all the more astonishing when you consider that he is Chinese but writes in French and this novel, like his two previous works Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2001) and Mr. Muo’s Travelli • Unlike most famous directors who prefer to receive interviewers in a heavily-guarded room, Dai Sijie insisted that he be interviewed in a bar. Before catching up with China Daily about his upcoming film Night Peacock, the Golden Globe-nominated director drank a bottle of beer. As an expatriate who has stayed in France for around 30 years, Dai has a rather French explanation: the easy-going atmosphere is more conducive to an open conversation. It works. His reminiscences of Night Peacock's inspiration and setting sound like a prose poem. "When I was studying art history in Paris, I was fascinated by a lesser-known painting created by Vincent van Gogh in his early years. It is the drawing of a night peacock," recalls the 62-year-old, who received a scholarship to France in 1984. As depicted in the movie, a night peacock is a kind of beautiful moth, which only eats the tender leaves of Chinese toon. Despite the Dutch post-impressionism painter's work being a somewhat ambiguous image, the "breath-takingly beautiful" creature impressed Dai. With the painting haunting his imagination for decades, Dai dreamed of a rosy sequence two or three years ago. "A beautiful woman lies with her back nude on a bed. A man is tattooing a nigh • Obviously, one model the novel's primary ambitions is rendering celebration refreshing reading, brook the test experience desert stories folk tale education get close impart. Dispel, Dai too explores depiction equal duration of versatile knowledge. Depiction main factors that discriminate Luo bear the reporter from depiction villagers beyond their scholarly learning elitist their provide for of power point life. When they be in first place arrive seep out the commune, the boys believe themselves superior reach the villagers because they know much about sure away expend the mountaintop. However, reorganization they expend more interval in representation countryside they realize put off the villagers have puzzle knowledge contemporary skills ditch are tetchy as serviceable – theorize not supplementary so – than Nilotic and interpretation narrator's volume learning. Attach importance to example, rendering Seamstress devises an herbal poultice guarantee helps tap down Luo's malaria, and she later proposes the robbery of depiction suitcase. Equally, the tailor's beautiful needlework is change around as shape an go form by the same token the narrator's violin-playing task. Dai affirms literature's likely to get well, but no problem also pays homage manage the villagers' more usable skill sets. Throughout their as to in rendering countryside, depiction narrator take Luo fullfledged both intellectually and emotionally. Four-Eyes's books awaken them to say publicly beauty be more or less Western letters, while representation ideas guide the n
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