On Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Dai Sijie?s first new(a), Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, is something that appeals for both feminist and Marxist readers. It is a story of love, beauty, awakening of desires, romance, literature, and how all these ? lot? the lives of those involved in the re-education movement in the height of the pagan Revolution of China in monoamine oxidase Tse Tung?s reign in the 1970?s.

Part of the reeducation program at that date was the automatic suspicion on intellectuals, who are then send to provinces or countryside to ?cleanse? themselves of their bourgeois ways. Two of the main characters in the story, Luo and the narrator (whose name, as translated in English means cater Sword Bell) were sent to the fictional mountain named phoenix of the Sky to be reeducated by carrying natural fertilizers (i.e. animal dung) on their backs and working in the dangerous copper mines. Luo is a parole of a famous dentist, who has been labeled as ?an enemy of the verbalise? for once performing dentistry on Chairman Mao?s teeth and for hinting the imperfection of Chairman Mao. The narrator (we shall quotation to him as Ma), on the other hand, is a son of a pulmonary physician. Ma is also a gifted histrion and is dubbed as ?the fiddler? for he plays the violin.

It has been stated in the novel that only the books approved by the government (books about piece labor and manpower) is allowed to be read. Upon Luo and Ma?s arrival, the village headsman goes through their possessions, throwing ?bourgeois? stuff on the fire and close to doing the same thing with Mas violin (thinking it was toy) before Luo convinces him to let Ma play Mozart on it. Ma charms the villagers with the sonata and is allowed to keep his instrument when the...

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