Family Catastrophe: A Modernist Novel

Wang, Wen-hsing

University of Hawaii Press

Wang Wen-hsing caused a sensation in Taiwan in 1972 with publication of Family Catastrophe, his first full-length novel. Many critics were outraged, called it socially irresponsible, morally corrupt, and stylistically irrational, but the novel weathered its controversial reception to become what is now widely regarded as a masterpiece in modern Chinese fiction and the benchmark of Taiwan’s Modernist movement. Often described as Joycean, Family Catastrophe is significant for its stylistic and linguistic experimentation as well as for its disturbing and universal themes. It appears now in English for the first time.

Family Catastrophe: A Modernist Novel (Fiction from Modern China) (Fiction from Modern China, 4)

Literature & Fiction

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Family Catastrophe: A Modernist Novel (Fiction from Modern China, 4)

Backed against the Sea: A Novel (Cornell East Asia Series) (Cornell East Asia Series, 67)

Written as the ludicrous and disturbing ramblings of an errant, pseudo-intellectual urbanite secluding himself from the underworld in an impoverished coastal village of Taiwan in the early 1960s, this novel prompted the first critical discussion of postmodernism in Chinese fiction and still stands as the most provocative and innovative narrative published in Taiwan over the past two decades.

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Cornell East Asia Series

Written as the ludicrous and disturbing ramblings of an errant, pseudo-intellectual urbanite secluding himself from the underworld in an impoverished coastal village of Taiwan in the early 1960s, this novel prompted the first critical discussion of postmodernism in Chinese fiction and still stands as the most provocative and innovative narrative published in Taiwan over the past two decades.

Literary

This volume consists of translations of twenty-four fictional works and five essays by Wang Wen-Hsing, plus a dedicated author's preface. Wang is one of the most celebrated modernist writers in Taiwan and the recipient of Taiwan's most prestigious National Culture and Arts Award (Literature Category). This anthology brings to English readers excellent works written in the earlier period of Wang's writing career; most of the works are published for the first time in English. This book is an important introduction not only toward understanding Wang's writings in particular, but also to understanding Taiwan modernist literature in general.

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Family Catastrophe: A Modernist Novel

Family Catastrophe: A Modernist Novel (Fiction from Modern China) (Fiction from Modern China, 4)

Family Catastrophe: A Modernist Novel (Fiction from Modern China, 4)

Backed against the Sea: A Novel (Cornell East Asia Series) (Cornell East Asia Series, 67)

Backed against the Sea: A Novel (Cornell East Asia Series) (Cornell East Asia Series, 67)

Endless War: Fiction and Essays by Wang Wen-Hsing (Cornell East Asia Series) (Cornell East Asia Series, 158)

Endless War: Fiction and Essays by Wang Wen-Hsing (Cornell East Asia Series) (Cornell East Asia Series, 158)