Broken Home

"Single Reading 23: Broken Homes: A Special Edition on French Literature" marks the third installment in the "Single Reading" series' focus on overseas literature. Ivan Jablonka, Thomas Flahaut, Pascal Manukyan, Emilie Flesch, and Hubert Adad—these five authors range in age from the 1940s to the 1990s—collectively embody the unique quality of contemporary French literature: a close focus on current social realities and the integration of these within the realm of literary expression. These stories, while primarily centered on family life and intergenerational relationships, allow readers to glimpse a vast social landscape through these fractured crevices. Furthermore, essays, interviews, poetry, reviews, and a column on Australian literature will offer readers a broader perspective and a more diverse range of perspectives. In 2020, in this vast world, be open-minded.
★ "Single Reading" continues its journey around the world's cultural landscape, presenting the latest works of contemporary French literature, challenging your preconceived notions of French literature. Are you familiar with Balzac, Hugo, Proust, or Camus? "Single Reading" introduces and translates original French works for the first time, challenging your familiar French literary world! Thomas Flahaut, Pascal Manukyan, Emilie Flesch, and Hubert Adad—four contemporary French writers, ranging from the 1940s to the 1990s—present family stories from diverse perspectives. Scholar and writer Ivan Jablonka offers a captivating discussion on the differences between fiction and nonfiction, addressing the creative challenges of a new generation of writers.
The striking contemporaneity of French literature captures the heartbreaking reality of today's world. While literature is losing its capacity to imagine a future society, contemporary French literature continues to grapple with the increasingly harsh realities of the present. These stories conceal a vast social landscape and its plight. Through the cracks of individual families, we glimpse the decline and fading of the working class, the intrusion of state power into private life, the ways in which terrorism will become the most undeniable pain of this century, and the scourge of modernity, which is steadily corroding the human spirit...
Yun Yetui's interview with German translator Wei Yuqing, Ou Ning's utopian historical narrative, poet Zheng Xiaoqiong's writings on female migrant workers, and Peng Jianbin's interpretation of the mission and future of literature—all these intertwine, between past and future, to question how a better society and a better literature are possible today. German literature interweaves with the history of East and West Germany in a conversation. Irving's utopian experiments continue to influence human conceptions of the future. "Working Poet" Zheng Xiaoqiong addresses the dual exploitation of women by factories and patriarchy. Author Peng Jianbin analyzes the future of literature from the underrated masterpiece "Liang Jinshan."
★ The "Australian Literature Column," created in partnership with the Australian Embassy, ​​is continuously updated! "Dan Du 14: Australian Literature Special" was Dan Du's first foray into the broader world of overseas literature, and now, Dan Du continues to create new space for such attempts.
★ "Dan Du," a publication from One Direction Space, is a beloved book for intellectually inclined young people. In 2020, in this vast world, be open-minded. This edition of "Dan Du" continues to publish readable and thought-provoking novels, essays, and reviews, sharing the authors' global observations and personal experiences.

2020-01-01

上海文艺出版社

Single Reading

354

9787532174331