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2 September 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

The characters in Dai Sijie’s Once On A Moonless Night are obsessed with stories. They’ll spend hours on end lecturing their fellow travelers with stories that morph into other stories that disappear into other stories, like a shirt being constantly turned inside-out. It’s an interesting tactic for a book about the power language and myth can hold over people, but it often creates situations where these assorted narrators become difficult to keep straight.  In Night, the stories are of varying quality and interest. Some, like the tale of a sort of Chinese Atlantis that disappeared beneath a »

1 item from 2009