China Dream
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
«Le rôle de l’écrivain consiste à sonder les ténèbres et par-dessus tout à dire la vérité. J’ai écrit ce roman motivé par ma colère contre les fausses utopies qui asservissent et infantilisent la Chine depuis 1949.»
Mélangeant fiction et réalité, le nouveau roman de Ma Jian dresse le portrait de la Chine d’aujourd’hui livrée au «rêve chinois» du président Xi Jinping et à l’amnésie imposée par l’État. Sous les allures d’une fable cruelle, l’auteur dévoile l’une des facettes les plus implacables de la tyrannie qui consiste à tenter d’effacer la mémoire, à éradiquer tout événement passé qui pourrait gêner la marche du pouvoir.
Un chef-d’œuvre de subversion et de drôlerie.
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Exiled Chinese writer Ma's satirical novel (after The Dark Road) is a bold, searing indictment of present-day China and a lyrical expos of the false utopia created by the Communist Party and its current leader-for-life, Xi Jinping. Written "out of rage" according to Ma's foreword, the fable subverts the propaganda of Xi's Chinese Dream and chronicles the descent into madness of the louche, corrupt government functionary Ma Daode. Having played his part in the nasty factional violence of the Cultural Revolution, Ma has risen to become director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with replacing all private dreams with the collective, great China Dream. But he is increasingly unable to control his own dreams: dreams of fallen comrades, a martyred girlfriend, and the pitiful demise of his parents after he himself denounced them. After a disastrous appearance at an antigovernment demonstration during which his neighbors throw chicken bones and condoms to protest the razing of their neighborhood, and having made a fool of himself in a speech at a Golden Anniversary Dream ceremony in which his dreams overcome him, Ma is suspended from his position. He goes on a desperate search for a cure, extracting the recipe for the miraculous Old Lady Dream's Broth, a hare-brained concoction of blood and tears he hopes will eradicate not only his, but all undesirable dreams. The book will surely be banned in China, as has Ma's other works. This is an inventive yet powerful confrontation of China's past and present.
