Wang Shuo

Wang Shuo (Chinese王朔, Pinyin Wáng Shuo, born August 23, 1958 in Nanjing) is a Chinese novelist and screenwriter.

Wang Shuo is considered a representative of a social class that is called in China流氓liumang ( rowdy, rogue, scoundrel, villain ) or痞子Pizi ( lazybones, tramp ). So that people are meant to occur in cliques, make it fun of others, most are unemployed and defy aware about rules. The values ​​of liumang include freedom, independence and self-determination. Wang Shuos literature in which the protagonists also occur liumang was, therefore, " hooligan literature " (痞子 文学Pizi wenxue ) called and partly also prohibited.

Biography

Grew up in Beijing, he joined after leaving school in 1976, the Chinese Navy. This was not least to be able to tame even on pressure from his father, who hopes his rebellious son something. Later, Wang Shuo works as a pharmaceutical representative for a pharmaceutical company in Beijing and performs with his buddies a wild life: women, shady dealings, plenty of contact with the police. In 1978 he began to write literary texts. In 1984 he celebrates his first major success with the story The stewardess ( KongZhong Xiaojie空中小姐).

In other novels such as "Upper anarchists " and " palpitations " Wang Shuo used strong ideological political language - but in an ironic way. Style and action are influenced by the ideology of liumang, which is also expressed in terms of the newly-minted liumang language:

  • 合法hefa ( German orig " legal." ): You could quench the thirst, but would it not fun.
  • 谎言huangyan ( German eigenl "lie". ): When this book is a lie repeated a thousand times to the truth. But some liars simply lose patience ...

After the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 Wang Shuos work the first time, banned a second time for a short time in 1996, but his already great popularity in China only intensifies.

The great success of his in German often qualified as " picaresque novels ," novels in the eighties animated him the beginning of the nineties to adapt some of his works for film and television.

Novels

  • Palpitations called the game, ISBN 3-257-22971-2, 1995 (玩 的 就是 心跳walls jiu shi xintiao, 1989)
  • Upper anarchists, ISBN 3-257-06142-0, 1997 (玩 主Wanzhu, 1987;一点 正经 没有Yi dian Zhengjing meiyou, 1989)

Secondary literature

  • Long Nian. 王朔 词典Wang Shuo Cidian (Wang Shuo - Lexicon ). Taihai -Verlag, Beijing, 2001.
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