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Dialogues in Paradise - Janssen, Ronald R (Translated by), and Zhang, Jian (Translated by), and Can, Xue
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The thirteen stories of Dialogues in Paradise are eloquent in a way the West associates with both the modern and the ancient: the dark oracles of Aeschylus and Sophocles, the paranoid mystery of Kafka, the moving stream of Woolf. The work of Can Xue (a pseudonym of Changsa writer Deng Xiao-hua) renews our consciousness of the long tradition of the irrational in our literature, where dreams and reality constitute one territory, its borders open, the passage back and forth barely discernible. She fuses lyrical purity with ...

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Dialogues in Paradise 1989, Northwestern University Press

ISBN-13: 9780810108318

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