Chinese narratives: Fictions and other forms of non-literature

This volume on literature in Chinese language embraces a very extensive period that begins concerning the VIIIth century d. C: and that it finishes in the XXIst century. This revision is articulated following the tracks of a literary genre - the narrative of fiction - that has been historically alienated by the classic tradition, but that, nevertheless, shows the existence of other forms of intellectuality and of culture in a Chinese world that has little to do with the monolithic and reactionary idea with which often he has been represented in Occident

Across the fiction narrative, then, this work proposes a literary trip that, departing from the classic conception and insoslayable that in China has been had of the literature (wen), penetrates into the not literature writings (not wen) that traditionally have remained excluded from the canonical considerations, journeys towards the ideas that, already in the full XXth century, speak to us about a new way of understanding the literature (wenxue), to come, finally, to the distinction between Chinese literature and literature sinófona from last decades.

Edited by David Martínez - Oaks and Carles Prado-Fonts, and published by the UOC (University Oberta de Catalunya), this work turns into a basic tool for all the interested parties in the Chinese literature, as well as a reference that can turn out to be interesting for the simple narrative reader, for the one that will be constituted in a source of new resources and suggestions. The book consists of five chapters written by two publishers and the teacher Relinque Eleta of the University of Granada, in that of more or less chronological form, one gives a revision to these narrative forms (considered not literature in the Chinese classic world), with the first approach to the wen or literature (Prado-Fonts and Martínez Robles), (Prado-Fonts) shows us the first forms of not literature (Relinque Eleta), the birth of the genres of fiction (Relinque Eleta), the birth of the modern literature (Prado-Fonts) and an approach to the Chinese narrative and the narrative sinófona.

Chinese narratives: fictions and other forms of not literature. David Martínez-Robles (ed)., Carles Prado-Fonts (ed). and Alice Relinque Eleta. Publishing house UOC. Barcelona, 2008

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