by Sijie Dai · Adelphi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788845919220
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«Muo e la vergine cinese» is the contemporary fiction novel by Dai Sijie, published by Adelphi in paperback (314 pages, in Italian).
Young Chinese man Muo studies psychoanalysis in Paris and believes the greatest French legacy is the chivalric ideal. He returns to China to save his former companion Vulcano della Vecchia Luna, arrested for selling forbidden photos. With his Freudian theories as his only weapon, Muo lives comic adventures in a contradictory China.
The work was originally published as Le Complexe de Di and won the Prix Femina in 2003. Italian edition from Adelphi's Fabula collection (no. 162).
For readers of contemporary literary fiction who enjoy humor and adventures set in present-day China.
Dai Sijie is a Chinese French author and filmmaker living in France since 1984. He writes in French. His first novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, written in French, was a best seller and has been translated into more than 25 languages.
