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Canxue, 1953-
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Strangers -- Fiction.
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction.
Existentialism -- Fiction.
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Canxue, 1953-
Strangers -- Fiction.
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction.
Existentialism -- Fiction.
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Five
spice
street
/ Can Xue ; translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping.
by
Canxue, 1953-
Yale University Press, c2009.
Call #:
FICTION CAN
Subjects
Strangers -- Fiction.
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction.
Existentialism -- Fiction.
Series
Margellos world republic of letters book
ISBN:
9780300122275 (alk. paper)
0300122276 (alk. paper)
Description:
329 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the Chinese.
Summary:
""
Five
Spice
Street
" is a novel about a
street
in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. The novel interweaves their endless suppositions into a work that is at once political parable and surreal fantasia. Some think X is 50 years old; others that she is 22. Some believe she has occult powers and has thereby enslaved the young men of the
street
; others think she is a common trickster playing mind games with the common people. Who is Madam X? How has she brought the good people of
Five
Spice
Street
to their knees either in worship or in exasperation? The unknown narrator takes no sides in the endless dialectic of visions, arguments, and opinions. The investigation rages, the
street
becomes a Walpurgisnacht of speculations, fantasies, and prejudices. Madam X is a vehicle whereby the people bare their souls, through whom they reveal themselves even as they try to penetrate the mystery of her extraordinary powers."
Five
Spice
Street
" is one of the most astonishing novels of the past twenty years. Exploring the collective consciousness of this little
street
of ordinary people, Can Xue penetrates the deepest existential anxieties of the present day, whether in China or in the West, where the inevitable impermanence of identity struggles with the narrative within which identity must compose itself."--Inside jacket.
Genre:
Chinese fiction -- Translations into English.
Psychological fiction.
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