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I'm reading Mo Yan's Red Sorghum, what should I expect?

Also, magical realism thread in general. Any recommendation, particularly French ones?

>> No.4640732

>French magical realism

Try Marcel Aymé, Prévert, Boris Vian. That's probably the closest you'll ever get to it.

>> No.4640737

Are you reading it in Chinese?

>> No.4640768

>>4640737
no, i wish. i only speak european languages.

>> No.4641766

Not really magic realism until it gets to Sorghum Funeral and then it's more folk tale magic at one point during the funeral. Republic of Wine is magic realism throughout.
Expect muh sorghum. Literally. Everything sorghum. Sorghum wine. Sorghum shit. Sorghum blood. Sorghum bullets. Sorghum sorghum. I speed read through the prose which was too florid for me, which I guess fits the sorghum theme.
Pretty graphic rape scenes and blood and gore and piss in wine and crass "humour". I laughed at a vomit part though so I guess I shouldn't judge.

>> No.4641783

>>4640702
The Wizard of the Crow is a good magical realist novel, despite being neither Chinese nor French.