Nobel Laureate Mo Yan: “I Am Guilty”
In his first interview since receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in December, Mo Yan talks to Der Spiegel’s Bernhard Zand about his work, his political views, and his critics.
SPIEGEL: Unspeakable things happen in many of your novels. In “The Garlic Ballads,” for example, a pr ...
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What is “beautiful” in the Communist Manifesto’s advocacy of violent class conflict and demanding that a “dictatorship” be established (supposedly of the “proletariat,” but in actuality of the bomb-throwing leaders of a self-serving insurrection)? Mo Yan is less “guilty” than “gullible” and “subservient” in the face of his all-important superiors in the Party.