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#CanXue

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#13books that I think about often:

#OliverSacks Musicophilia

#WillAitken Antigone Undone: #JulietteBinoche, #AnneCarson, #IvoVanHove, and the Art of Resistance

#NickCave, And the Ass Saw the Angel

#MarkZDanielewski House of Leaves

#UmbertoEco The Island of the Day Before

#HermannHesse Glass Bead Game

#PatrickMcCabe Poguemahone

#NealStephenson Anathem

#HalldorLaxness Under the Glacier

#CanXue Frontier

#JohnDarnielle x2: Universal Harvester, Master of Reality

#MaggieRowe Sin Bravely

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Ian Hunt

3 of 3, short thread on #CanXue -- here's a text published in 2015 which provides some background on Can Xue's working practices, life experience, character and thinking, especially her ideas about what she calls 'performance'. If anyone has come across interesting texts by or about her, feel free to add them here. electricliterature.com/a-speci

Electric LiteratureA Special Kind of Performance: Can Xue On The Course Of A Chinese Writer - Electric LiteratureWe’ve asked some of our favorite international authors to write about literary communities and cultures around the globe. We’re bringing you their essays in a new ten-part series: The Writing Life Around the World. The fifth installment is by Chinese author Can Xue. Beijing, Chinatranslated by Jonathan Griffith I have been fascinated by performances since I was […]
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Ian Hunt

particularly fascinating: the spatial qualities of the writing & thinking. Up, down, below, above, under, beneath, flying. Can Xue reminds me of few writers (not Kafka, not really, despite use of animal positions/narrators -- though comparison wd be interesting). Her work does remind me of the peculiar kinds of imaginative drive and inventiveness found in the work of the artist Ilya Kabakov, who like her had a complex sense of the interaction of indvidualised fantasy & communal life. #CanXue

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Ian Hunt

Finally read some Can Xue, in Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping's excellent translation. She is a fairly prolific author, this book turned out to be the right place to start. It would be interesting to know more about the contexts of original publication and her reception in China -- some stories are designed as 'magazine writing' and the experimentalism is meeting a readership. Here's an extract from the title story. #Chinese #Literature #Bookstodon #CanXue #VendrediLecture yalebooksblog.co.uk/2021/04/09

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