Besides kazuo ishiguro, what other immigrant literature is worth reading?

Hello, 1 Salman Rushdie's midnight son.

Author: [English] Salman Rushdie

Translator: Liu

Version: Beijing Yanshan Publishing House 2065438+September 2005

Salman Rushdie, like Naipaul, is also an Indian-born British writer. 1989, for writing "Satanic Poems", Roussidi was sentenced to death by former Iranian religious and political leader Saeed Ruholla Khomeini and called on believers to assassinate him. His salary was as high as $2.7 million, which made him the focus of the world for a time, and then triggered a series of actions to support the writer's creative freedom. In 20 12 years, the reward was increased to $3.3 million.

But what really won the literary achievement for Luxidi was the book "The Son of Midnight", which won the most authoritative literary prize in Britain. The novel depicts the magnificent magical reality and tells how personal destiny is intertwined with the rise and fall of the family and the history of the country, which is comparable to Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Salim Sinai, the hero, was born in a country-he was born at the sacred moment of India's independence from Britain. In this hour, 100 1 children were born. * * * continues the fate of the country, the nation and the religion, but their identities are intertwined. For example, Muslim children and Hindu children exchange identities, and their next generation is not their own offspring.

Luxidi wrote in his novels: "Reality can have metaphorical content; This did not make it lose some authenticity. When 1,001 children are born, there are 1,001 possibilities (such things have never happened at the same time and place before), and there will be 1,001 final endings. They can be regarded as the last counterattack of the past events in our country dominated by myths. In the modern economic environment of the twentieth century, its failure is a good thing. In other words, they can be regarded as the real hope of freedom, and now this hope has been extinguished forever. But they will never be a bizarre story constructed by the patient's imagination. No, the disease has nothing to do with it. "

3 Conrad's black heart.

Author: [England] Joseph Conrad

Translator: Huang Yushi

Version: People's Literature Publishing House, June 5438+ 10, 2002.

Joseph Conrad (1857─ 1924), formerly known as Joseph Teodoro Konrad Naz Korzenovsky, was born in Ukraine under the rule of Russian Empire.

Conrad's parents died young-from political persecution. When he was young, he worked as a sailor in a British merchant ship and traveled around the world for nearly twenty years. He didn't start writing until middle age. The complicated and turbulent life experience provided him with sufficient creative materials and a unique creative perspective.

The description of African continent in "Black Heart" comes from Conrad's own life experience. The description of natural scenery and sympathy for the bloody experience of Africa as a colony in the novel have rare vitality and complexity. Although this sympathy is regarded as racism by African writer Achebe, he feels that Conrad unfairly distorts the image of Africans and is portrayed as a savage, primitive and incompetent cannibal and beast.

This criticism may come from the obscurity of the novel, but Conrad tried to record it according to his own observation. What he really wants to express is how a person faces himself, how to face the blade world in front of him and how to get along with this cruel world. This also makes the novel face criticism from feminists.

Perhaps in the face of literature, we should put aside ideology and read it as literature.

3 Coetzee's youth

Author: J.M. Coetzee

Translator: Wang Jiaxiang

Version: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House 20 13 1.

Looking back, Conrad described the "black heart" in the world. So, how do young people in Africa spend their youth now?

Although it is an example, Coetzee's self-analysis and cold description of being in a foreign land may have been experienced by everyone in a foreign land. Coetzee's introverted brushwork gives trivial and mediocre daily details an abyss-like power, which you can't overlook for a long time.

As an autobiographical novel, Coetzee wrote about his youth 19 to 24 years old: a young South African went to London to work as a computer engineer, so he was not worried about his survival, but he was tired of the mediocre life and tried to escape and was trapped in the present. John, the hero, is as reticent as Coetzee himself, and thinks that sex is just a waste of energy and time. According to one of Coetzee's colleagues, they only saw him smile once after many years.

Like Conrad, Coetzee is a survivor among European civilizations. Although he was educated in English since he was a child and thought he was British, the difference in skin color made him make great efforts in his youth in an attempt to break through his class status in the white society of South Africa.

These are all discussed in this novel. There are no dramatic plots and strange experiences, but Coetzee saw the darkness of daily life and wrote mediocrity in a thrilling way, which is completely the master's brushwork, making this experience not only the youth of a South African youth, but the youth that every stranger has experienced.

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Harkin is waiting.

wait for

Author: Harkin Translator: Jin Liang

Version: Tiehulu Books Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House 2065438+June 2005

Finally, Ha Jin, a China novelist who has attracted much attention in recent years, decided to write in English after arriving in the United States, but unexpectedly became one of the few writers who became famous for writing in a non-native language. Now he teaches creative writing at Boston University.

The novel Waiting won him a great reputation, winning the National Book Award from 65438 to 0999 and the American PEN/Faulkner Novel Award from PEN/Faulkner Foundation in 2000. Ha Jin is the only writer who won these two awards with one book.

As one of Harkin's early novels, the story is often set in the northeast of his hometown. It tells the story that the military doctor Kong Lin tried to divorce his wife who had no emotional foundation because of a regulation of the army, and waited for 18 years. After a long wait, when he finally married the lover of his beloved, he seemed to have lost his long-awaited passion. Perhaps because the story is thin, he said that this novel is not a great work, but a small classic.

In China, Yu Hua, an admirer and novelist of Ha Jin, believes that Ha Jin's narrative style is "like a bulldozer" and goes deep into the subtleties of human nature. For ordinary readers, this novel not only has the smooth narrative and moving plot of popular novels, but also has the excavation of human nature by serious literature.

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