Diversity of voices, diversity of languages : one week of events and readings in Lyon and in the Rhône-Alpes region.
Ma Jian
Ma Jian © Claude Gassian - Flammarion
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China
A novelist, poet and visual artist, he wrote propaganda for Chinese unions then fled to Hong Kong because the Communist Party didn’t like his satirical works. In Beijing coma (Flammarion, 2005), the hero wakes from a coma ten years after the Tiananmen uprising to discover that China has become a major capitalist power. La Route sombre is a painful exploration of the ravages of the one-child policy.
