Family Catastrophe: A Modernist Novel

by Wang Wen-Hsing and Wen-Hsing Wang

Book Overview

Wang Wen-hsing caused a sensation in Taiwan in 1972 with publication of Family Catastrophe, his first full-length novel. Many critics were outraged, called it socially irresponsible, morally corrupt, and stylistically irrational, but the novel weathered its controversial reception to become what is now widely regarded as a masterpiece in modern Chinese fiction and the benchmark of Taiwan's Modernist movement.

Often described as Joycean,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824817109
• ISBN13: 9780824817107
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"