Shen congwen autobiography rangers

Isabelle Rabat

Charles A. Laughlin, tr.

Shen Congwen (1902—1988) was born into a military family in a remote area in western Hunan.

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Shen Congwen's novel " Border Town " was a poetic and romantic work that depicted a beautiful town and its characters.

Border Town, the opus, is the abiding masterpiece of Shen Congwen (–).

"The harvest of novella works has the echoes of human destiny," Sonam Tsering says of works by modern writers like Lu Xun and Shen Congwen that.

Although he admires the forest ranger living the life of a virtual recluse In Shen Congwen,.

He was in the army and later engaged in literary creation and became a writer. Perhaps it is because of his unique path among modern Chinese writers¹ that Shen Congwen maximizes the potential of the autobiographical form.

Congwen zizhnan (Congwen’s autobiography)² recounts to us the first two decades of the authors life. Although autobiography does not appear to be as rare in non-Western cultures as one French critic has claimed,³ it is undeniable that this book is a rare example in Chinese autobiographical literature, because its documentary value does not detract from its poetry.

More curious still, Shen Congwen was deliberately vague, in some of his short stories and novellas, about defining the “I”: as the narrator, the protagonist, or even the author himse