About this title: This collection of multi-cultural fiction includes short stories from around the globe by authors Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chen Rong, Yukio Mishima, Isabel Allende, Nadine Gordimer, and 20 others. (June)
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet Classics
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780451528407ISBN:0451528409
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet Classics
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780451528407ISBN:0451528409
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet Classics
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780451528407ISBN:0451528409
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"This was a textbook for class, and it was exactly what was described in the description. I was very satisfied with my purchase. The book itself was decent with several stories that are worth while..."
"This is a great collection of short stories from around the world organized geographically. I can't remember the time frame, however, I believe most of the stories date from the second half od the 20th Century.
Of particular interest to me were the stories from India and China. Though a woman I work with from India assured me that the caste system no longer existed in her country, the stories from India left me with a feeling of injustice toward certain lower castes and towards women in general within the traditional society. This is my Western bias and is not meant to suggest that colonialism was a "good thing". The stories allowed me to see traditional Indian life from the point of view of actual Indian writers. There was nothing "European" about the judgement of the writers upon the injustice and hypocrisy of the traditional ways of Indian society.
Similarly, the stories from China dating from after the Maoist revolution gave me an insight I had not had before into the ridiculous and brutal consequences of revolution and counter revolution. Specifically the injustices of the Cultural Revolution of the 1960's when the party apparatus at the top threw some of the old radicals and fervent leftist/nationalists to the lions (aka the younger generation of revolutionaries). How shameful! Some of the writers featured had to endure the tortures both physical and mental of re-education. Re-education, a sophisticated word for essentially sending intellectuals out into the country to work on collective farms and either die of starvation or exposure while being harrassed by ideological goons.
Amazing how similar the two systems are in some ways, ideological capitalism and revolutionary communism, both mask cruelty and brutality in the guise of the natural order of things and a sort of pseudo-intellectual "progressivism"."
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