Stones from Other Hills May Serve to Polish the Jade of This One
-- Talking about Wang Anyi's reception of foreign literature in Baotown
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https://doi.org/10.54097/ehss.v14i.8951Keywords:
Baotown, Wang Anyi, Tolstoy, MárquezAbstract
The Novelette Baotown by contemporary writer Wang Anyi which has been influenced by a variety of foreign literary trends is a masterpiece of root-seeking literature. Using a combination of influence studies and parallel studies, this article analyses the reception of foreign literature in Baotown, especially Tolstoy's Resurrection and Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, and explains the influence of foreign literature on Wang Anyi's notion and writing, to explore her perspective of the possibility of our traditional culture continuation in modern civilization with referring to foreign literature.
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