Fortress Besieged (New Directions Classic)

Fortress Besieged (New Directions Classic)
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : 9780811223546
ISBN-13 : 081122354X
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Book Synopsis Fortress Besieged (New Directions Classic) by : Qian Zhongshu

Download or read book Fortress Besieged (New Directions Classic) written by Qian Zhongshu and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2004-02-17 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest Chinese novel of the twentieth century, Fortress Besieged is a classic of world literature, a masterpiece of parodic fiction that plays with Western literary traditions, philosophy, and middle-class Chinese society in the Republican era. Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, our hapless hero Fang Hung-chien (รก la Emma Bovary), with no particular goal in life and with a bogus degree from a fake American university in hand, returns home to Shanghai. On the French liner home, he meets two Chinese beauties, Miss Su and Miss Pao. Qian writes, "With Miss Pao it wasn't a matter of heart or soul. She hadn't any change of heart, since she didn't have a heart." In a sort of painful comedy, Fang obtains a teaching post at a newly established university where the effete pseudo-intellectuals he encounters in academia become the butt of Qian's merciless satire. Soon Fang is trapped into a marriage of Nabokovian proportions of distress and absurdity. Recalling Fielding's Tom Jones in its farcical litany of misadventures and Flaubert's "style indirect libre," Fortress Besieged is its own unique feast of delights.


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