At the economic dawn of the Reform Era, China was to deal with a new literary avalanche: the Avant-garde. Narrative moves from socialist realism to abstract expressionism, from realism to experimental writing, forging a literary paradigm alternative to the dominant one. The shaping of postmodern texts depoliticized, fragmented, ahistorical, is somewhere along the line the negotiation of personal identities where the permanent struggle is not anymore between classes but within the frame of literature. In this sense, Can Xue and Ge Fei committed a deicide, killing off four decades of Maoist rhetoric and centuries of collective consciousness. My aim will be to demonstrate what makes the narrative of Can Xue and Ge Fei a moment of continuity and together a rapture with that of Latin American magic realism.

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