Short stories
邂逅集
Not translated into English
Wang Zengqi · 1949
Synopsis
The collection brings together eight short stories from the 1940s: La Vengeance, Le Vieux Lu, Les Artistes, Dai le tourneur, Déchéance, Les Prisonniers, Les Maîtres des poulets et des canards and La Rencontre. In La Vengeance, a traveller wandering to avenge his father stops at a small mountain temple, where he meets a monk. Les Maîtres des poulets et des canards portrays a man from Gaoyou skilled at hatching ducklings, Yu Laowu, in a countryside of rivers, willows and blossoming beans.
Context
The eight texts were written from 1944 to 1948, several during the author's stay in Shanghai according to an article by Tsinghua alumni, which sees in them the most mature stories of those years and notes the mark of Chekhov and Azorín. The book appeared in a series edited by Ba Jin, in April 1949 according to that same article, in 1947 or 1948 according to other notices. Some texts had appeared in journals, such as La Rencontre in 1948 in a literary supplement in Shanghai, according to Chinawriter. No translation of the collection has been found, either in French or in English.
Who it is for
Brief stories, to be read separately; the collection is not translated, but other stories by the author have appeared in French.
Prizes and reception
The alumni website of Tsinghua University welcomed its 2011 reissue, based on the text of the first edition.
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