Fiction

The Returning Soul

by Chen Yingsong

Description

This is a story of a ghost, who returned to “the birth land”, and died again. It is written by Chen Yingsong, who applies magic realism in his work. The reality of village and absurd existence has been narrated by his poetic and musical language.

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——“The Returning Soul is surprising. The Enormousness of life has been submerged in the text in form of key words like abandon, innocence, revenge, strange land, rebirth, tear, brother and sister, penis, breasts, cake, murder, fight, greed, sex, violence, lynch, ghost, funeral, mourning, last word, skeleton, etc. The meaning of life and death has been revealed in the gloomy atmosphere covered with lightning and fire, rain and mist.”





——In The Returning Soul, Chen Yingsong enters into an extraordinary creating state. With holographic view different from daily life, as well as unique form different from traditional ghost novel, the author makes brave composition. This novel shows whole new structure with absurd words, unique images, a mass of synesthesia, and wide imagination, expanding the expression of life among modern Chinese novels.


Author Biography

Lun Xun Literature Prize Winner Chen Yingsong is a representative of “the lower class literature”. He as written over 50 works, including novels, short stories, and poems, which bring him several literature prizes. His works have been translated into English, French, Polish, Romanian, Japanese, and Korean. According to Chen Yingsong, The Returning Soul is “a work without any rules”.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing
  • Publication Date June 2016
  • Orginal LanguageChinese complex
  • ISBN/Identifier 9787539993188
  • Publication Country or regionChina
  • FormatPaperback
  • Primary Price 39.80 CNY
  • ReadershipCollege/Tertiary Education
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language Title还魂记
  • Original Language Authors陈应松
  • Copyright Year2016

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