Wang Anyi

Wáng Ānyì ( chin.王安忆 / 王安憶) (* 1954 in Nánjīng ) is a Chinese writer and professor at Fudan University in Shanghai .

Life

Wang Anyi was born to the writer Ru Zhijuan . After graduating from school in Shanghai, she worked in an agricultural brigade in Anhui . It was there that Wang began to write. First, she published diary entries and letters to her mother. When she was employed as a musician in a cultural ensemble, she also wrote her first prose works. After returning to Shanghai in 1978, she co- edited the Ertong Shidai (Childhood) newspaper with other writers .

From the late 1970s, Wang wrote about the experiences of her generation and addressed love, which was frowned upon in China. So in Yu shashasha (rushing rain) and in Xiao yuan suoji (life in a small courtyard). Experiences from village life and in the cultural ensemble were also processed in these works. The following texts later referred to the Cultural Revolution , also to the period before and after the Cultural Revolution. Wang wrote these texts after spending a year at the Lu Xun Institute in Beijing. These texts are attributed to the literature of recollection . Wang wrote the next texts from 1983 after participating in the International Writer's Workshop in Iowa. Here Wang tries to discover a Chinese identity.

In texts referred to as literature on the search for roots , such as B. Xiao Baozhuang (1985), rural life symbolizes Chinese society. A stronger individualization of the protagonists , an objectification of the point of view, fables with many storylines and timers appear here.

In 1986 little loves , narratives of sexual addictions, emotional attachments, unfulfilling partnerships, and estranged marriages were published. In these narratives, these topics are drawn particularly sharply, which had not occurred in China before. The stories contain a psychological representation and stream of consciousness .

From the mid-1990s onwards, Wang also took up autobiographical topics that include subjectivity and the search for one's own identity. Wang mixes fictional and real events, and there is no inner logic from which the narratives develop.

Postmodern elements first appear in Shushu de gushi (The Uncle's Story) in 1990 , but Wang continued to write traditional stories such as Mini (Between the Shores) in 1991 and Wenge yishi (Anecdotes from the Cultural Revolution) in 1993 . A psychological design of the protagonists and detailed descriptions of the unspectacular appear in these works.

In her novel The Lights of Hong Kong , she pursues the search for an identity and gives impressions from the community of overseas Chinese.

In the novel Chang hen ge (1995) she addresses not only relationships but also the superficialities of the outside.

In 2000 she was awarded the Mao Dun Literature Prize for the best novel for 《长恨歌》 (chánghèn gē, song of long hatred, translated in English as "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow") . The film based on the novel "Everlasting Regret" by Stanley Kwan was awarded in 2005 at the Venice Film Festival .

literature

• Volker Klöpsch, Eva Müller (Ed.): Lexicon of Chinese Literature. CH Beck, Munich 2004

Web links

• Literature by and about Wang Anyi in the catalog of the German National Library