Dialogues in Paradise

by Can Xue and Xue Can

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810108313
• ISBN13: 9780810108318
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Abstract, beautiful

I had to read this "short" story for my high school sophomore honors english class a few months ago. We were studying literature with non-Western characteristics. Such as the plot line, which was not the Aristotle mountain (rising action, falling action). Months later, I am still remembering lines and sections from this book. Can Xue's writing has affected not only my own writing, but my outlook on other literature, poetry, and art. I would definitly call this book abstract, beautiful and worth owning.