Sartre reading Lu Xinhua. Existentialist reading of Scar Literature.

      Аннотация: The first attempt of literature in Post-Ideology China has more than ever assumed a social function, a violent denounce of what was produced until then. The New Era opens with a shy quest for identity. As the best way to penetrate history is through comparison, the only possible approach to decode contemporary China is to compare it to a different reality. Reading Scar Literature through Existentialist lens will introduce the reader to a different application of Modernism, not anymore as a reaction to the crisis of Positivism but as a reaction to Maoism. And if the hypothesis of an existentialist reading of Scar Literature is valid, Nietzschean admirers will not be disappointed, history has repeated it self once more.

Ключевые слова: Cultural Revolution, Existentialism, Modernism, Post-Modernism, post-socialism, socialism, Scar Literature, Crisis of Reason