LEADER 03733nam 2200589 450 001 9910810159903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-51930-3 024 7 $a10.7312/guo-14734 035 $a(CKB)3170000000065137 035 $a(EBL)908740 035 $a(OCoLC)861793051 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000870619 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12402499 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000870619 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10818372 035 $a(PQKB)10602289 035 $a(DE-B1597)458911 035 $a(OCoLC)1029825866 035 $a(OCoLC)1032691409 035 $a(OCoLC)979879975 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231519304 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908740 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000065137 100 $a20150818h20092009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRunning mother and other stories /$fGuo Songfen ; edited and with an introduction by John Balcom 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2009. 210 4$dİ2009 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 225 1 $aModern Chinese Literature from Taiwan 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-14734-1 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tForeword: Summer 1961 /$rLee, Stella --$tIntroduction: Guo Songfen, Taiwan's "Lost" Modernist /$rBalcom, John --$tMoon Seal: translated by Michelle Yeh --$tWailing Moon: translated by Yingtsih Balcom --$tRunning Mother: translated by Yingtsih Balcom --$tClover: translated by Hayes Moore and Lee Yu --$tSnow Blind: translated by Foster Robertson and Lee Yu --$tBrightly Shine The Stars Tonight: translated by John Balcom 330 $aGuo Songfen's short stories are masterful psychological portraits that play with the echoes of history and the nature of identity. One of the few modernists to truly capture the fallout from such events as the February 28th Incident and the White Terror, Guo Songfen illuminates the quiet core of his characters through a spare and immediate style that is at once a symptom and an allegory of the trauma in which they live. In "Running Mother," a man is torn between his fear of abandonment and his guilt over leaving his family, and therefore his symbolic home, behind. "Moon Seal" follows a woman caught between traditional and modern worlds. In "Wailing Moon," a wife learns a shocking secret after her husband's death, realizing he was never the man she thought him to be. Set in the United States and Taiwan, "Snow Blind" is a multigenerational triptych that portrays the consequences of spiritual malaise, and in "Brightly Shines the Stars Tonight," a general wrestles with issues of memory and self-perception in the final moments before his execution. Guo Songfen's stories play with the hazards of miscommunication, the malevolence of human will, the arbitrary nature of fate, and the burden of historical circumstance. As the general discovers, life is a game of chess, the outcome of which is never certain though it might be logically designed. Showcasing the best of Taiwan's modernist style, these stories are not only an indictment of the human condition but also a powerful comment on the experience of post retrocession Taiwan. 410 0$aModern Chinese literature from Taiwan. 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / General$2bisacsh 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / General. 676 $a895.1/352 700 $aGuo$b Songfen$f1938-2005,$01626014 702 $aBalcom$b John 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810159903321 996 $aRunning mother and other stories$93961824 997 $aUNINA