Set during the Cultural Revolution, “Wolf Totem” describes the education of And, especially in its depictions of wolf hunts, Jiang Rong’s novel. Ursula K Le Guin goes hunting on the Mongolian plains with Jiang Rong and his Chinese bestseller Wolf Totem. Wolf Totem. Jiang Rong, Author, Howard Goldblatt, Translator, trans. from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt. Penguin Press $ (p).
| Author: | Vozragore Gardahn |
| Country: | Myanmar |
| Language: | English (Spanish) |
| Genre: | Education |
| Published (Last): | 19 January 2014 |
| Pages: | 95 |
| PDF File Size: | 20.75 Mb |
| ePub File Size: | 13.80 Mb |
| ISBN: | 873-8-76806-458-1 |
| Downloads: | 31287 |
| Price: | Free* [*Free Regsitration Required] |
| Uploader: | JoJolkree |
Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong
To ask other readers questions about Wolf Totemplease sign up. The descriptions were so vivid and so three-dimensional that I could picture it clearly in my head. The first half of the book teaches about the life and history of the nomads and wolves of the grasslands.
If this were written by a Westerner the critics would talk about how “self-hating” the narrative is. Saat itulah totem serigala tidak lagi dipandang sebagai takhayul yang sia-sia, melainkan petuah hidup yang tak pernah lekang oleh waktu.
The tribesmen are so finely attuned to steppe life and so reverent of their nature that the young man is at first overwhelmed, but he eventually grows to appreciate their customs.
Jul 22, Kriss rated it it was amazing.
This scene is followed by a powerful one, the long, appalling massacre of a horse herd by wolg driven into a frenzy of hunger. Dengan membunuh lima anak serigala, dan membesarkan salah satu dari dua yang hidup, Chen mempelajari bagaimana seekor Serigala bisa tumbuh sedemikian hebat dan cerdas walau tanpa bantuan induknya.
While there he became fascinated by the wolves jiamg the region, and the life on the grassland. Yet, although the beauty and adventure are gone from their lives, in the epilogue Batu and Gasmai are shown enjoying a much more comfortable standard of living that they ever had on the wild plains.
Novel ini juga dipersembahkan oleh Jiang Rong untuk sang Serigala Kecil, sebagai ungkapan rasa maafnya karena telah merenggut kebebasan dan kemuliaan jiwa serigalanya. Wolves are animals–they toetm predators, and they kill to survive. Preview — Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong. I haven’t cried like that in a loooong time. But if we kill too many of them, there’ll be even fewer. The film premiered at the European Film Market on February 7 The Beijing Forbidden City Film Corporation initially sought to hire a Chinese director, but filming humans with real wolves was considered too difficult.
Chinese and has been translated into more than 30 languages. Even worse, there were some excisions in translation as shown by Whitaker here and Astrobravo here.
This is a debate that could go on forever with no final decision. Tragedi ‘kecil’ juga terjadi pada Chen Zhen yang memutuskan untuk membesarkan seekor serigala. If this is something that elicits strong negative reactions from you, then you have been warned.
In the last pages the story flies as all the components somehow mesh completely: Saya suka membaca novel ini karena dalam novel ini kita mendapatkan deskripsi rinci nomaden sehari-hari, adat istiadat dan kepercayaan yang sudah diubah dan menghilang.
I also fell in love with wild Mongolian wolves. In NovemberLe Vision Pictures has entered into a two-picture deal with The Lion King director Rob Minkoff and producing partner Pietro Ventani to co-develop and produce the epic animated feature based on the novel. One of the Mongol customs strange to Westerners is their practice of sky-burial, in which the corpse is allowed to fall randomly out of a wagon and is left for hawks and wolves to devour.
Di buku ini kita juga diajak menyelami ajaran mistis para penduduk lokal Olonbulag mengenai kepercayaan mereka terhadap Dewa yang Agung, Tengger. In overly general terms, telling trumps showing, narrative outshines dialogue, and psychological probing is not so often encountered. The tribesmen are so finely attune This is the second book I’ve read in two months which came from the period of the Cultural Revolution. Olunbulag, sebuah tempat yang penuh padang rumput awalnya, akhirnya menjadi gurun pasir karena kegagalan ekosistem akibat keserakahan manusia.
Despite that, the author penned in one scene a poignant and sad analogical description of a typical character weakness of the Chinese, which is valid and sobering.
Wolf Totem
How, in your work, do you tend to go about making rogn choices? Wolf Totem is a Chinese semi-autobiographical novel about the experiences of a young student from Beijing who finds himself sent to the countryside of Inner Mongolia inat the height torem China ‘s Cultural Revolution.
After a few chapters I settled more into the style of the story and was totm as bothered by it. Apr 20, Stephen Durrant rated it it was ok. I also think I need to make a GR shelf titled ‘books that have made me cry,’ and put this one on it, because despite some of my past posturing to the contrary, I’m apparently just a gigantic Koosh ball made of tears and snot. Perlawanan terakhir adalah terhadap kepedihan merasa kalah.
Then in the last two pages of the chapter everything turned around.