Frases de Geling Yan

Geling Yan es una escritora nacida en Shanghái y de nacionalidad estadounidense,[1]​ autora de una gran cantidad de novelas, relatos cortos y guiones. Muchas de sus obras escritas han sido adaptadas a los medios audiovisuales. En la actualidad es representada por la agencia literaria Peony con sede en Hong Kong. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. noviembre 1958
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Geling Yan: Frases en inglés

“Any suffering registered in your mind makes the emotion deeper. Maybe as a writer, I am constantly looking for tragedy.”

Fuente: "Turning Loss into Beauty: The Tragedies of Geling Yan" in The Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB930264290705115630 (25 June 1999)

“I like to play with words. In English, there's only one or two ways to say something; in Chinese there are 30 ways.”

Fuente: "Turning Loss into Beauty: The Tragedies of Geling Yan" in The Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB930264290705115630 (25 June 1999)

“From early on, I was nourished in a literary way. I didn't realize that there was a writer already living in me”

Fuente: "Turning Loss into Beauty: The Tragedies of Geling Yan" in The Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB930264290705115630 (25 June 1999)

“Good stories will keep haunting me for years. They will mature and want to be born. I can't help it.”

Fuente: "Yan Geling" in South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/article/476179/yan-geling (31 October 2004)

“It’s frustrating, that you know what good literature is but you cannot get it totally right.”

Fuente: "Chinese writer finds freedom in English" in Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-literature-yan-interview/chinese-writer-finds-freedom-in-english-idUSTRE53M00D20090423 (22 April 2009)

“I consider myself as having two selves. One self is Chinese and more delicate, more subtle, in terms of language. But the English self is young and audacious, and I say what I want to say.”

Fuente: "Chinese writer finds freedom in English" in Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-literature-yan-interview/chinese-writer-finds-freedom-in-english-idUSTRE53M00D20090423 (22 April 2009)

“My dream is to write with both pens, in English and Chinese. I want to be more truthful and more straightforward when I write in English.”

Fuente: "Chinese writer finds freedom in English" in Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-literature-yan-interview/chinese-writer-finds-freedom-in-english-idUSTRE53M00D20090423 (22 April 2009)

“Death is not completely tragic, perhaps it will be the completion of a redemption, or the beginning of a rebirth.”

Fuente: "Yan Geling: I Am Also A Person In The Cave" https://www.bannedbook.org/en/bnews/lifebaike/20211010/1635954.html (10 October 2021)

“Of course, the vision of many works, such as the sense of picture and imagery, is actually unconscious by the writer. If the writer is conscious, he will write very artificial things.”

Fuente: "Yan Geling: I Am Also A Person In The Cave" https://www.bannedbook.org/en/bnews/lifebaike/20211010/1635954.html (10 October 2021)

“It’s always challenging to portray foreign characters in a novel that is told mainly from a Chinese perspective or, you may say, in a Chinese story.”

Fuente: "What War Does to Human Hearts: Interview with Geling Yan" http://www.chinaww2.com/2016/04/30/what-war-does-to-human-hearts-interview-with-geling-yan/ (30 April 2016)

“It’s frustrating seeing things lost in translation. Some expressions are just so Chinese, or so English, you have to switch your thinking to English in order to write it with spontaneity and naturally.”

Fuente: "Chinese writer finds freedom in English" in Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-literature-yan-interview/chinese-writer-finds-freedom-in-english-idUSTRE53M00D20090423 (22 April 2009)

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