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Su Tong
"Escape" (1991) Questions:
1. How would you say this kind of work fits into an avant-garde
frame?
2. The theme of the story seems to be obviously about escape.
But what is meant by escape? What is Sanmai escaping from?
3. How might the story be read as an allegory of the problem
of the self in Chinese culture and society?
4. How is the story told? In what ways can the narrative mode
be said to be "avant-garde" or post-modern? Is this
the same kind of narrator we see in Mo Yan's "Autumn Waters"?
4. What is the meaning of the image of the kite at the end of
the story?