One Sentence Is Ten Thousand Sentences
One Sentence Is Ten Thousand Sentences[1] is a novel written by Liu Zhenyun from 2006 to 2008.[2] It was awarded the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2011.[3]
It depicts the futility of a search for love among a group of lower class people over the span of two generations.[4]: 199 Although the character's lives are boisterous, they experience profound loneliness.[4]: 199
The phrase "One Sentence for ten thousand sentences" frames the novel and is a quotation from Lin Biao shortly before the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.[4]: 199
The novel has been adapted into a 2016 film Someone to Talk To, directed by Liu Zhenyun's daughter Liu Yulin.
References
[edit]- ^ Liu, Zhenyun. One Sentence Is Ten Thousand Sentences. Changjiang Literature and Art Press. ISBN 7535439764.
- ^ 刘震云 (March 2009). Yi ju ding yi wan ju 一句顶一万句 (in Chinese). 武汉: 长江文艺出版社. p. 362页. ISBN 978-7-5354-3976-5.
- ^ 张中江 (2011-08-20). 刘震云莫言等5人作品获第八届茅盾文学奖. 网易新闻 (in Chinese). 中国新闻社. Retrieved 2012-07-28.
- ^ a b c Wang, David Der-wei (2016). "Red Legacies in Fiction". In Li, Jie; Zhang, Enhua (eds.). Red Legacies in China: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution. Harvard Contemporary China Series. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center. ISBN 978-0-674-73718-1.
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