Word: short
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...never been easy to classify. Like the writers of the nouveau roman, he struggles with language itself and the ways contemporary life have drained it of meaning; he has often stated that his favorite novelists are James Joyce and Robert Louis Stevenson. Le proces-verbal was short-listed for the Prix Goncourt and won the Prix Renaudot, and Le Clézio has been in the front rank of French literature ever since...
...status of planned investment. Or perhaps the trigger was General Motors, down 31% in the wake of being put on watch for a possible credit-rating downgrade, signaling that the broader economy is on much shakier ground than everyone thought. Or could it even have been the much vilified short-sellers of financial stocks, back in the market after a 14-day ban expired Wednesday at midnight...
...even grown as other countries step up their own efforts to guarantee bank accounts and bolster financial firms. In a coordinated swoop, governments around the world cut interest rates; two days ago, in the U.S., the Fed took the unprecedented step of saying it would start buying commercial paper, short-term corporate IOUs, in yet another attempt to thaw frozen credit markets...
...them, nestled like a matryoshka doll into the novel itself, is about an ignorant but good-hearted rural immigrant to Beijing who works as a street vendor. The structure of the novel itself resembles a screenplay, told in highly visual prose broken into a series of short chapters. The Beijing Olympics brought viewers images of the city's monumental new architecture. But Guo gives us the insider vantage - the cramped one-room apartments, the cockroaches...
...This is a short, spry, slangy novel, but it speaks about the conundrums of identity and individuality with gestures that remain long in the mind. The germ for the story emerged from Guo's first book, published in China when she was just 19. Guo reworked that in English, with the aid of a translation by Rebecca Morris and Pamela Casey. Now she has written in English again. Chinese critics may moan, as they have over Ha Jin, about linguistic "betrayal." Let them. Literature is about a place beyond the provincial, and wherever writers like...