Beschreibung
The first attempt of literature in Post-Ideology China has more than ever assumed a social function, a violent denounce of what was produced until then. The New Era opens with a shy quest for identity. As the best way to penetrate history is through comparison, the only possible approach to decode contemporary China is to compare it to a different reality. Reading Scar Literature through Existentialist lens will introduce the reader to a different application of Modernism, not anymore as a reaction to the crisis of Positivism but as a reaction to Maoism. And if the hypothesis of an existentialist reading of Scar Literature is valid, Nietzschean admirers will not be disappointed, history has repeated it self once more.
Autorenporträt
Alberto Castelli, 35, is a novelist and an academic. After having traveled for more than ten years, he momentarily settled in China engaging himself in a comparative study between Western and Chinese Modernism. Among his publications, China: A Quest for Identity and May Fourth: Historical Misunderstanding?
