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Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress by Dai Sijie

Dai Sijie(1954) – a Chinese-French author, novelist and filmmaker. He participates in “Up to the Mountain and Down to the Countryside”- a program for re-education with rural peasant in Sichuan, China province during Cultural Movement in 1966, Chaired by Mao Zedon. After this he teaches at high school and learns art history at Sichuan University till he gets a scholarship in 1984 for Study Film in France. He lives in Paris, primarily writes in French though he has a Chinese passport.

Films: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, released in 2002.

Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress (2000) (Scar Literature)– A Semi Autobiography. It is his first novel, translated into 25 languages as of 2017. He is inspired to write this novel from his re-education with rural peasants at rural Sichuan. It wins five Literary France Award.

Summary

The novel is about two teenagers Luo and the unnamed narrator during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Luo is a good storyteller and the narrator is a good musician. They are Tibet for re-education in rural China. enemies of the state by the government. The two boys love the Little Seamstress who is a daughter of the local tailor. The people of rural China are delighted by the stories when the two boys share reading of classic literature and movies. They are even relieved from work to watch films

The two boysUrsule Mirouët by Honoré de Balzac for once reading. Luo reads the book whole night and gives to the narrator and leaves to tell the story to the Little Seamstress. Luo comes back with a leaves after having sex with the girl.

The village headman has had a dental issue. He threatens to arrest Luo and the narrator for their The Count of Monte Cristo if they do not find a healings of his dental issue. They assure a solution and turn the drill slowly as to punish him.  The headman once allows Luo to go home to take care of his sick mother. After Luo’s

The Little Seamstress develops a passion for the outside world after reading the foreign books Lou helpwd in. She suddenly leaves the mountain to start a new life in the city. Luo finds detest for the foreign books "in