Living an Emperor’s Life, Dying a Nobel Death. Li Hongwei’s Novel “The King and Lyric Poetry” as a Journey Through the History of Chinese Poetry

• Published in: Litteraria Copernicana no. 2(38); pp. 57 - 82
• Main Author: Krenz, Joanna
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń 30.06.2021
• Subjects: contemporary chinese poetry; dialectics; poetry discourse; the king and lyric poetry; the post-70 generation

The present paper discusses Li Hongwei’s novel The King and Lyric Poetry (2017). The novel tells the story of the suicide of the last Nobel Prize laureate in the future history of literature, Chinese poet Yuwen Wanghu. Following the detective thread of the book, the essay reconstructs utopian and dy...