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25 Cards in this Set
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Cultural revolution
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-Started in 1966: "down to the countryside" movement - youths were encouraged to get rid of "impure" elements
-denounces Mao's regime because the boys become more cultured and intelligent in the countryside |
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Re-education
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-Pierre Barberis' "Le roman d'education": but two boys instead of 1, city boys ergo reversal of roles, initiateur = books
-both success and failure of re-education -formal and informal -L's attempts to "civilise" LPT |
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Influence of books
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-fetishisation, how they create power, forbidden
-destruction of old China through books: Mao's China based on Marx's readings of French Revolution; re-education of boys also based on similar readings -intellectual maturity: beauty of literature and mind-broadening philosophy; opening mind up to world -emotional maturity: relationship with LPT - courage (abortion); experience of emotional trauma; how to treat others |
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Magic of literature
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-almost like falling in love, giddiness, teenage infatuation
-words/books = wine - intoxicating -mirroring Balzac's "Ursule Mirouet": landscape and cinematic focus; flirty tone when first reading - coy; explores theme of sexuality |
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The West/France
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-refined
-exotic -revolutionary -freedom of individual -books = forbidden - different, libertarian culture -empathy, curiosity and love can transcend cultural differences |
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Fairytale
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-frozen in time
-"exotic" culture -magical quality of trunk -lack of names -Phenix du Ciel -metamorphosis -fable - moral: "any system that fears knowledge and education and that closes its mind to moral and intellectual truth will prove itself, in the end, to be impotent" |
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Intertextuality
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-Roland Barthes' "Theorie du text": "toute texte est un tissue nouveau de citations revolues" - "tissue" = sheepskin coat echoes first making of books; covering body in it - warmth and comfort - East meets West
-blood and leaves = ink and paper -Mao's red book -books affect the story of their lives |
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Other art forms
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-film
-storytelling -violin: even that becomes Communist propaganda -embroidery |
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Luo and LPT have sex
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-ginkgo - ancient Chinese remedy for memory
-chapter of their own story: blood and leaves -loss of innocence and realisation of sexuality and independence - phallic tree -red blood vs red nail varnish - eroticism - different relatioships |
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Narrator
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-unnamed - more relatable?
-voyeur: never acts upon his feelings for LPT -gains strength and courage |
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Luo
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-outgoing, theatrical
-only gains knowledge of sex, relationships and heartbreak |
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LPT
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-ignorant
-willingness to open her mind -strength and bravery |
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Binoclard
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Link with outside world - fantasy
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Power of books
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"un choix dont la raison nous resta obscure et qui bouleversa notre vie"
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Magic of books
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-"le livre reve"
-"magie", "beaute", "parfum" |
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Book = LPT
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"mince"
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Different cultures
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"malgre mon ignorance totale de ce pays nomme la France"
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Books = desire
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"ce petit livre me parlait de l'eveil du desir, des elans"
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Love/intoxicating
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-"tomabai tour a tour amoureux avec la frivolite et le serieux de mes dix-neuf ans"
-"une saveur exotique, sensuelle, genereuse comme le parfum envoutant d'un alcool" |
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Intertextuality
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"c'etait le premiere fois de ma vie que j'avais envie de recopier un livre"
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Propaganda
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"Mozart pense au president Mao"
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Narrator's feelings
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"je me sentis soudain enhavi par un sentiment de jalousie"
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Women
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"Balzac m'a fait comprendre une chose: la beaute d'une femme est un tresor qui n'a pas de prix"
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Sex
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"ces sont des feuilles de ginkgo [...] son sang a coule par terre, sur les feuilles"
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Ignorance
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"C'est quoi un dentist?"
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