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marathonreader 's review for:
The Republic of Wine
by Mo Yan
adventurous
challenging
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
"Quickly Mo Yan and I merge into one. He sits up in his middle berth, which means I sit up as well.. This Mo Yan is so filthy he's hard to swallow" (332)
Not quite auto fiction, but creative fiction at its best. We follow a character named Mo Yan, who is a famous writer, who has written Red Sorghum, and his exchange of letters and stories with Li Yidou. Yidou includes stories about a world called Liquorland, Where people eat fried donkey testicles in donkey female organs, but jazz it up otherwise people won't eat it... and then people using chopsticks to eat babies. Where apparently the most important discoveries in the world happened around women's menstrual cycles because apparently their scents are keener.
"For many years the struggle between sex and morality has been a tangle causing much suffering split personality Faulkner learned from Joyce's Ulysseys can't I also learn from you This was the only way it can be done originally this text was intended to explore the relationship between liquor and women liquor decreases a man's libido but increases a woman's this is the fundamental conflict between LI Yidou's father in law and mother in law Never tire of the refined in food always strive for delicacy in cooking running out of words and searching for expressions a reality in writing" (353)
Not quite auto fiction, but creative fiction at its best. We follow a character named Mo Yan, who is a famous writer, who has written Red Sorghum, and his exchange of letters and stories with Li Yidou. Yidou includes stories about a world called Liquorland, Where people eat fried donkey testicles in donkey female organs, but jazz it up otherwise people won't eat it... and then people using chopsticks to eat babies. Where apparently the most important discoveries in the world happened around women's menstrual cycles because apparently their scents are keener.
"For many years the struggle between sex and morality has been a tangle causing much suffering split personality Faulkner learned from Joyce's Ulysseys can't I also learn from you This was the only way it can be done originally this text was intended to explore the relationship between liquor and women liquor decreases a man's libido but increases a woman's this is the fundamental conflict between LI Yidou's father in law and mother in law Never tire of the refined in food always strive for delicacy in cooking running out of words and searching for expressions a reality in writing" (353)