Only the good work of a writer who has drunk from both cultures, from the millenary Chinese civilization to the emblematic of our days the United States.
This is the case of Pearl S. Buck, a prolific writer and blessed by some of the most relevant awards in world literature such as the Nobel Prize in 1938.
The highest consideration of the world narrative was granted to her for her overwhelming work of bringing cultures together, for her exhaustive knowledge of the most basic strata of a Chinese people to which her missionary parents took her shortly after birth, and where she lived until many decades later.
In the more commercial or at least more popular aspect, the Pulitzer Prize also recognized in this naturalized American writer (a sine qua non of the award) her narrative capacity to compose a mosaic of humanity that is as remote in the physical as it is close in the spiritual. Her novel The Good Land of Her ended up being an unparalleled phenomenon for a literary theme and style that was quite far from the most popular genres of the moment.
And so, to this day, Pearl S. Buck remains a widely read and republished author around the world. It is what good literature has, which in the end turns out to be imperishable ...
Top 3 Recommended Books by Pearl S. Buck
East wind, west wind
No better book by this author to find that synthesis that she alluded to at the beginning of this post. Since the world began to connect, since the confines of our planet were mapped and the interaction became unstoppable, cultures began to intertwine as well as to clash with virulence at times ...
The wealthiest families in China at the beginning of the XNUMXth century could discover how the old principles of their beliefs and customs could be resented by new approaches from that western side of the world.
Even more so when the one who manifests this attraction for what is different is a daughter. Because Kwe-lan needs to soak up the western in order to keep afloat everything he essentially wants for his life and for his future. And among those winds sways the fragile essence of the human represented in the young daughter of the potentate progenitor ...
The good land
Pearl S. Buck was an exceptional connoisseur of Chinese culture and history, with that notion of full authenticity of one who really knows all the peculiarities of behaviors and beliefs cradled for centuries and even millennia.
A novel with a tempo and even a sound that evoke the old oriental spiritual currents, where the soul rocks, not without suffering from its own contradictions, but knowing how to put the essentials first, that mystical fusion of the soul with the earth, with the family. , with the elements.
A culture that in a certain way also had to face the fatality of a destiny marked by rulers who knew how to take advantage of that faith in passive resistance, that confidence in the future that would rebuild everything in this or the next life.
Until the foundations of the most inserted beliefs end up tottering due to injustice and the revolution calls from the depths of despair ...
Mother
The recognition of feminism as a transversal movement throughout the world is an act of justice for all those women around patriarchies of a very different nature but always as a form of yoke for all women.
The mother of this novel does not have a very clear name, intentionally spreading the idea of any mother of the Chinese homeland in the middle of the XNUMXth century. The apparent patriarchy is in many cases a matriarchy in the last resort.
Because it coincides that the most oppressed beings develop better the ingenuity necessary to survive. A Chinese mother in a rural environment should be the basic sustenance of a family structure, the greatest possible fortune would then appear as a flower of destiny for the patriarch on duty ...
