On May 10, the surging news reporter learned from Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House KEY-Can Culture that the latest work "Crocodile" by the 68-year-old famous writer and Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan is expected to be published at the end of May this year (at the latest early June).
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"Crocodile" is a drama script that mainly tells the story of Shan Wujian, a corrupt official who absconded from the United States, and revolves around the gift "crocodile" at four birthday parties from 2005 to 2015. The story was conceived in 2009, the first draft was completed in February 2022, and Mo Yan revised the third draft in March this year.
The former mayor of a coastal city in China fled to the United States in 2004 due to corruption and fear, and lived in a villa in the United States with Mu Fei, a young mistress and a former secretary. Although he is in the United States, his heart is still in China, and he never forgets his past achievements - the Qingyun Bridge that he presided over the construction, and feels trance, loss and unwillingness to reality. In the past ten years, all kinds of people around him have appeared. For ten years, Wuxian continued to replace the larger fish tank for the crocodile, allowing the crocodile to grow until it became a four-meter-long behemoth...
Although Mo Yan came from a novel writing background, he has always had a deep fascination with dialogue dramas. Few people know that Mo Yan's real debut novel is not a novel, but a script called "Divorce". He once said, "I am an apprentice in theatre making. But I had ambitions to become a playwright. "
Before "Crocodile", Mo Yan had published two collections of plays, "Our Jing Ke" and "Grandma Wearing Red Silk".
Before "Crocodile", Mo Yan had published two collections of plays, "Our Jing Ke" and "Grandma Wearing Red Silk"
Among them, "Our Jing Ke" and "Farewell My Concubine" have been staged more than 100 times at home and abroad. "Our Jing Ke" participated in the 7th National Drama Outstanding Repertoire Exhibition and won the "Golden Lion Award - Best Play Award/Outstanding Screenplay Award" of the National Drama Culture Award.