Frases de Mo Yan
Mo Yan
Fecha de nacimiento: 17. Febrero 1955
Mo Yan ,[1] seudónimo de Guan Moye , que significa "no hables",[2] es un escritor chino, Premio Nobel de Literatura en 2012.
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Frases Mo Yan
„Mientras contemplaba al presidente tendido en el sarcófago de cristal, recordé la sensación de cataclismo que había tenido dos años antes al oír la noticia de su fallecimiento; el desengaño al descubrir que en el mundo no había dioses. Ni en sueños habríamos creído que el presidente Mao moriría un día, pero murió. Creíamos que si se moría el presidente Mao, sería el fin de China. Pero llevaba dos años muerto, y el país no sólo no había llegado a su fin, sino que iba mejorando paulatinamente […]“
— Mo Yan
Change
„Pero, cómo pudo Lu Wenli irse con el profesor Liu? -pregunté-. ¡Es inconcebible!
-Acaso era concebible meterle la pelota en la boca de un requetazo? -replicó He Zhiwu.
Indudablemente, eso formaba parte de las cosas inconcebibles, lo que demuestra que los asuntos de este mundo sufren infinitos cambios y evoluciones, que la suerte reúne a las parejas predestinadas a través de las más extrañas e imprevisibles coincidencias. No hay nada imposible.“
— Mo Yan
Change
„Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?“
— Mo Yan, libro Red Sorghum
Fuente: Red Sorghum: A Novel of China (1986/1987)
„Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.“
— Mo Yan, libro Grandes pechos, amplias caderas
Fuente: Big Breasts and Wide Hips (1996)
„A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.“
— Mo Yan
Fuente: Shifu: You'll Do Anything for a Laugh and Other Stories
„A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.“
— Mo Yan, libro The Republic of Wine
The Republic of Wine (1992)
„I sometimes think that there is a link between the decline in humanity and the increase in prosperity and comfort. Property and comfort are what people seek, but the costs to character are often terrifying.“
— Mo Yan, libro Red Sorghum
Red Sorghum: A Novel of China (1986/1987)
„What we are pursuing is beauty, nothing but beauty. It's not true beauty if we didn't create it. Creating beauty with beauty is not true beauty either; real beauty is achieved by transforming the ugly into the beautiful.“
— Mo Yan, libro The Republic of Wine
Fuente: The Republic of Wine (1992), Chapter Four, Section V
„Unique descriptions of scene play a significant role in the success of fiction, and any first-rate novelists knows enough to keep changing the scenes in which his characters carry out action, since that no only conceals the novelist's shortcomings, but also heightens the reader's enthuisiasm in the reading process“
— Mo Yan, libro The Republic of Wine
Fuente: The Republic of Wine (1992), Chapter 10, Section 2
„Over decades that seem but a moment in time, lines of scarlet figures shuttled among the sorghum stalks to weave a vast human tapestry. They killed, they looted, and they defended their country in a valiant, stirring ballet that makes us unfilial descendants who now occupy the land pale by comparison.“
— Mo Yan, libro Red Sorghum
Red Sorghum: A Novel of China (1986/1987)
„The relationship between man and liquor embodies virtually all contradictions involved in the process of human existence and development.“
— Mo Yan, libro The Republic of Wine
Fuente: The Republic of Wine (1992), Chapter Four, Section 3
„Bullshit bullshit bullshit… after a string of 'bullshit', he spat out spitefully, Can the cliches! That might work with most people, but not with me. Millions of people all around the world have suffered and been mistreated, but those who become men among men are as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns. It's all a matter of fate, it's in your bones. If you're born with the bones of a beggar, that's what you'll spend you life as.“
— Mo Yan, libro The Republic of Wine
Fuente: The Republic of Wine (1992), Chapter Five, Section IV, 'Yichi the Hero'
„“Am I drunk?" he asked Crewcut. "You're not drunk, Boss," Crewcut replied. "How could a superior individual like you be drunk? People around here who get drunk are the dregs of society, illiterates, uncouth people. Highbrow folks, those of the 'spring snow,' cannot get drunk. You're a highbrow, therefore you cannot be drunk.”“
— Mo Yan, libro The Republic of Wine
Fuente: The Republic of Wine (1992), Chapter I, Section 1
„Liquor infatuates me until I am in capable of following rules and regulations. Liquor's character is wild and unrestrained; its temperament is to talk without thinking.“
— Mo Yan, libro The Republic of Wine
Fuente: The Republic of Wine (1992), Chapter Four, Section IV, Donkey Avenue