Frases de Mo Yan

„Morir es fácil; lo difícil es vivir. Y cuanto más difícil se vuelve, más fuerte es la voluntad de seguir viviendo. Y cuanto mayor es el miedo a la muerte, mayor es el esfuerzo que se hace por conservar la vida.“

—  Mo Yan, libro Grandes pechos, amplias caderas

Big Breasts and Wide Hips

„Todo el mundo sabía que las balas no tienen ojos, que las bombas no son muy dadas a pedir disculpas y que los soldados son como tigres que han bajado de la montaña, tigres que no son precisamente vegetarianos.“

—  Mo Yan, libro Grandes pechos, amplias caderas

Big Breasts and Wide Hips

„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

„Lo tengo clarísimo: si un hombre no puede casarse con la mujer a la que ama, tiene que buscarse una que le aporte el mayor número de ventajas posible.“

—  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

„La belleza de la literatura reside en los malentendidos.“

—  Mo Yan

Pow!

„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)

„People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.“

—  Mo Yan

„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