Background
Dai Sijie was born in Chengdu, Sichuan in 1954. He grew up extensively reading and thinking.
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399pages. poche. Broché. Après avoir étudié la psychanalyse pendant dix ans en France, Muo revient dans son pays d'origine, la Chine. Auréolé de son savoir et de sa connaissance de la langue française, il n'en reste pas moins un être pétri de timidité, puceau, dont l'amour unique, l'énigmatique "Volcan de la Vieille Lune", croupit dans les geôles du parti unique. Exerçant son métier de manière frénétique, se délectant des rêves de ses patients comme un gourmet d'une assiette de caviar, Muo décide de tenter de corrompre le juge Di, responsable de l'emprisonnement de sa bien-aimée. Loin de se satisfaire d'un simple bakchich, le juge exige, en échange de sa clémence, une vierge que l'homme de science devra lui servir sur un plateau. Une quête qui mènera ce freudien convaincu aussi loin que le permettra son esprit fantasque. Après le formidable succès de Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise, Dai Sijie est de retour avec un livre atypique mettant en scène un personnage loufoque, attachant, chevalier servant d'une école révolue qui enseigne l'amour total, la galanterie et l'honneur. Penchant sur Muo un regard sans complaisance, il nous conte les efforts désespérés et les aventures farfelues de ce psychiatre décalé, amateur de culture française et de confessions intimes. Le livre vaut alors tout autant pour le destin de son héros, l'humour de situations baroques et insolites, que pour les multiples destins de ceux qui croisent la route de Muo et de son insatiable curiosité. -Hector Chavez
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戴思杰
Dai Sijie was born in Chengdu, Sichuan in 1954. He grew up extensively reading and thinking.
After his return, he completed his professional certificate as a teacher. 16 High School of Chengdu upon his enrolling to the Department of History of Sichuan University in February 1978 (so-called 77 grader) where he studied art history.
Dai excels in many things, including being a skilled tailor himself. The Maoist government sent him to a re-education camp in rural Sichuan from 1971 to 1974 during the Cultural Revolution. Though, as the only child in the family, he would have been excused, he went there with the idea of the spartan training.
Much of this experience was the source of his first book
He briefly taught in The Number. In 1984, he left China for France on a scholarship.
There, he acquired a passion for movies and became a director Before turning to writing, he made three critically acclaimed feature-length films: China, My Sorrow (1989) (original title: Chine, ma douleur), Le mangeur de lune (Moon Eater) and Tang, le onzième (The Eleventh Child).
He also wrote and directed an adaptation of his novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, released in 2002.
He lives in Paris and writes in French. L"acrobatie aérienne de Confucius (The Aerial Acrobatics of Confucius) was published in 2008. Dai Sijie lives and works in France.
(ISBN: 9782070767588 PUBLISHER: GALLIMARD)
(Book by Sijie, Dai)
(399pages. poche. Broché. Après avoir étudié la psychanaly...)