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Unsinkable: Short Stories from Taiwanese Writers
- Gesprochen von: Edmund Bloxam
- Spieldauer: 1 Std. und 26 Min.
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The tumultuous recent history of Taiwan surprisingly gave the islands unusually diverse cultures. People immigrated to Taiwan for all kinds of reasons, from missionaries sent to pass on their gospels, businessmen developing new markets, workers seeking bigger money, to refugees running from wars or dissidents looking for asylum. Thus memories of the lost past are a motif of Taiwanese literature and a powerful approach for writers to deal with issues inconvenient to confront face to face. These issues include regime transfer, political oppression, faiths, sexuality, family values, urbanization, fantasies, misunderstanding, cultural clashes and discrimination. Colonialism and poverty are still living experiences and simultaneously memories to many Taiwanese. In literary works, the (dis)continuation of tradition and values are the ever present focus. In these four stories, the authors have successfully woven layers of messages through intriguing plots, characters and metaphors. With extraordinary artistry, they (re)present elaborate human natures. These are the stories of ordinary people who refuse to succumb to hardship or inequality. They are unsinkable Taiwanese.
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Geschichte3 out of 5 stars
- Susanne Teschner
- 09.05.2024
Disappointing
This boom includes four short stories by four different Taiwanese authors portraying the diverse history of Taiwan and its residents indomitable spirit - is what the editor tells you at the beginning of the book.
Unfortunately, it falls very much short of that. Short in length and volume firstly. The book could have very much benefitted from the inclusion of one or two more short stories to pad out the run time, perhaps one from a female author considering how much some of the stories centre on women.
The standout piece in terms of quality is definitely the third story by Lun Chun-ying, set in the period right after the Japanese withdrawal, and portrays the tension between East and West, Taiwan and mainland very well. If there is anything to take away from this book, it is that this story is well worth a read on its own.
Unfortunately, the story following it put a sour taste in my mouth. I wonder what compelled the editor to choose this piece as the finale of this collection. Cynically, I'm thankful that it was at the end only because I likely wouldn't have bothered with other stories if it has been at the beginning.
The story's premise is fairly simple; a man and friends go to a less popular Russian restaurant in Taipei. It devolves from there in a truly bizarre mixture of almost vitriolic hatred for a disabled girl and fetishistic objectification of the female friend that results in a fever dream sequence of public sexual intercourse. Perhaps I am simply too uneducated to find much meaning in this self-indulgent trite, but then I don't feel like the off-hand references to class structures are worth the trip that the author takes you on.
Without this last story, the book would have maybe gained four stars at best, considering the lack of content in general, but I can honestly and unfortunately not recommend this book.
A much better alternative for short stories comes in the form of The Salt of Sound Forming, which has a much larger collection of mainland Chinese works that, if varying in quality, are mostly worth a read.
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