The narrator and his best friend, luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find themselves in a remote village where, among the peasants of phoenix mountain, they are made to cart. Balzac and the little chinese seamstress quotes by dai sijie. Its name comes from the 1978 short story the scar by lu xinhua. At the height of maos infamous cultural revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for reeducation.
Born in china in 1954, dai sijie is a filmmaker who was himself reeducated between 1971 and 1974. En 2017,voici une adaptation litteraire et poetique taillee dans le vif et lemotion forte. A film based on his novel directed by dai was released in 2002. This, his first novel, was an overnight sensation when it appeared in france in 200. Editions of balzac and the little chinese seamstress by dai sijie. Editions of balzac and the little chinese seamstress by. The genre consists of the stories of those intellectuals who were reeducated during the cultural revolution, and much of the work is autobiographical or semiautobiographical. Une belle histoire, simple, tres reussie, qui plonge au c. He left china in 1984 for france, where he has lived and worked ever since. Balzac and the little chinese seamstress 2005 rotten. Balzac and the little chinese seamstress is an example of scar literature, a chinese literary movement that developed after mao zedongs death in 1976. Balzac and the little chinese seamstress wikipedia.