6. The Post-Modern "Search for Roots" in Han Shaogong, Mo Yan, and Wang Anyi

El suplicio del aroma de sándalo es una novela clave de Mo Yan, ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura en 2012. La novela es una historia de amor y una crítica a la corrupción política durante los años finales de la Dinastía Qing −la última época imperial china−, en la que el autor inserta numerosos factores culturales de la tradición china.Blas Piñero Martínez, traductor de la versión castellana, realizó una traducción con un total de 321 notas, transmitiendo detalladamente dichos factores culturales. Este artículo, con base en las teorías de la traducción cultural de Even-Zohar, E. Gentzler y Wang Dongfeng, intenta analizar las funciones culturales de las notas en la traducción de Piñero Martínez de la novela de Mo Yan.

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La fiction du vivant. L’homme et l’animal chez Mo Yan

Perspectives chinoises ◽

10.3406/perch.2010.4013 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 112 (3) ◽

pp. 134-141

Author(s):

Yinde Zhang

Keyword(s):

Mo Yan

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A Perusal on “The Song of Everlasting Sorrow” by Wang-Anyi

Journal of Chinese Studies ◽

10.35982/jcs.89.7 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 89 ◽

pp. 167-190

Author(s):

Gyeongnam Kim

Keyword(s):

Wang Anyi

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Frog Metaphors in Mo Yan’s Novel 蛙 /UA55/ (Frog): A Cognitive Perspective

MANUSYA ◽

10.1163/26659077-02002006 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 122-153

Author(s):

Yao Siqi

Keyword(s):

The Novel ◽

Human Beings ◽

Mo Yan ◽

Cognitive Approach ◽

One Child Policy ◽

Child Policy ◽

Past Half Century ◽

Metaphor Theory ◽

George Lakoff ◽

Chinese Author

《蛙》/ua55/ (frog) by the Nobel Prize winning Chinese author Mo Yan describes China’s changing its highly controversial one - child policy and system of forced abortions over the past half-century. Frog metaphors are omnipresent throughout the novel. The present study aims to investigate these metaphors within the framework of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s (1980) Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) and the “GREAT CHAIN OF BEING” system of George Lakoff and Mark Turner (1989) to deepen our understanding of their nature and manifestations. Zoltán Kövecses’s (2002) “HUMAN BEINGS ARE ANIMALS” and “ANIMALS ARE HUMAN BEINGS” were also considered as cognitive metaphorical models. Moreover, the viewpoint of “phonetic metaphor” initially proposed by Ivan Fónagy (1999) was also taken into account. Results were that in Mo Yan’s work, the frog plays an essential role in the conceptualizing conventional views of certain areas in China. The analysis demonstrates how a cognitive approach offers an effective way to explore the cognitive basis of the text’s view on the complex relationship between the basic human rights and the dilemmas of living in a repressive society. This paper also hopes to make a certain contribution to comprehending frog metaphors in terms of more clearly delineated concepts and ideology reflecting China’s real society of a one-child policy and its traditional counter - policy notion.

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