History and Hats
D.A.N. Jones, 23 January 1986
The Lover
by Marguerite Duras, translated by Barbara Bray.
Collins, 123 pp., £7.95, November 1985,0 00 222946 3 Show More
by Marguerite Duras, translated by Barbara Bray.
Collins, 123 pp., £7.95, November 1985,
Stones of the Wall
by Dai Houying, translated by Frances Wood.
Joseph, 310 pp., £9.95, August 1985,0 7181 2588 6 Show More
by Dai Houying, translated by Frances Wood.
Joseph, 310 pp., £9.95, August 1985,
“... the Chinese language, or languages, has a bearing on both the style and the subject-matter of Dai Houying’s impressive novel about modern China in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution: the poetry is in the things and ideas, the clash of ideograms in challenge and response, not in sounds, echoes, national resonances. Stones of the Wall, though ... ”
