A novel of Yan Lianke serves to the people,

The censoring of a Chinese work is a powerful magneto that seems to assure his immediate publication in the principal western languages. As this publication in turn turns into the base of later interdisciplinary studies, which logically can only be based on the released materials, it is the base to an imaginary construction of China that little has to do with the reality.

If the censoring is the quality certificate that needs any literary work, the Cultural revolution is this essential time of the one that all the myths start.

Counting "to Serve to the people" with these ingredients, does not wonder his translation to several western languages.

The work is a simple novel that describes with certain ease the ambience in a military detachment, where there are personages pushed by the hard circumstances of the life waiting for an opportunity to improve his familiar situation.

"To serve to the people", the motto that presides at all the military facilities of China, which comes at the beginning of the work of an idealism imbued with the communist doctrines is opening along the same one like an amalgam of small targets that preside at any human work.

The love story of two protagonists, idealizing of explosive form this reality serves to remember that, even in the stages more clearly egalitarian, social classes always exist, as well as the constant interference of the matters deprived of the leaders in the small stone social life.

Although the repeated desecration of the most sacred communist symbols along the work would have been enough to justify his prohibition in China, there is not doubt that the big sin of Yuan Lianke is deconstruir this "to serve to the people" on which there settles the military dictatorship that directs China in the myriad of passions, interests and human hopes that compose it.

To reveal before our eyes what happens and we are not capable of seeing, getting entangled in idealized analyses, there is not doubt that it is one of the functions of the art, and in this sense this work can be considered to be as such.

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