About the author

Wang Dongliang is a Chinese book author about whom limited public information is available; his biography and identity have not been widely disclosed. Judging from the twelve works listed in the database, his writing and translation activities center mainly on foreign literature, covering categories such as classics and biography. His representative works include The Name of the Rose (revised edition) and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, as well as several translations connected with Marguerite Duras, such as India (The Collected Works of Duras 7), The Collected Works of Duras 8: Pain, The Vice-Consul, Love (The Collected Works of Duras 5), Love, and Memoir. These titles show that he attends both to classic novels from around the world and to the ongoing presentation of Duras's works. His work helps Chinese readers encounter foreign literary classics and gain a sense of the relevant authors and works.

Written (12)

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting cover
Rating 4.5
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera / 王东亮 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2022 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is a representative novel by Milan Kundera and the first long novel he wrote after leaving Czechoslovakia to settl…
In Search of Milan Kundera cover
Rating 3.9
In Search of Milan Kundera 阿丽亚娜·舍曼 / 王东亮 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2022 Milan Kundera is one of the world's most widely read writers, and also a writer who has successfully vanished. For thirty-seven years, by refusing to …
India (The Complete Works of Duras 7) cover
Rating 4.3
India (The Complete Works of Duras 7) Marguerite Duras / 王东亮 / 户思社 / 马振骋 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2021 India (The Complete Works of Marguerite Duras, Vol. 7) is Volume 7 of The Complete Works of Marguerite Duras. Titled India, it collects four represent…
The Complete Works of Duras 8: Pain cover
Rating 4.3
The Complete Works of Duras 8: Pain Marguerite Duras / 徐和瑾 / 刘方 / 王东亮 / 朱江月 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2021 Volume 8 of The Collected Works of Duras, comprising seven novellas and novels published between 1967 and 1985: The English Lover, Abahn Sabana David,…
Love (The Complete Works of Duras 5) cover
Rating 4.2
Love (The Complete Works of Duras 5) Marguerite Duras / 王东亮 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2021 This is Volume 5 of The Complete Works of Marguerite Duras, collecting the French writer Duras's novels The Ravishing of Lol Stein, The Vice-Consul, a…
Memories cover
Rating 4.0
Memories 大卫·冯金诺斯 / 王东亮 / Niu Yue Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2021 “Memory is like a destination—perhaps the only thing that truly belongs to us.” A novel imbued with warmth and humor beneath its quiet surface, *Memor…
Subtlety cover
Rating 3.9
Subtlety 大卫·冯金诺斯 / 王东亮 / 吕如羽 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2021 A bestseller on a phenomenal scale when it was published in 2009, A Matter of Subtlety (La Délicatesse) is by the contemporary French author David Foe…
The Name of the Rose (Revised Edition) cover
Rating 4.6
The Name of the Rose (Revised Edition) Umberto Eco / 沈萼梅 / 刘锡荣 / 王东亮 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020 The Name of the Rose is Umberto Eco's masterpiece, hailed as the forerunner of the "cryptographic detective novel" and even voted No. 1 on the all-tim…
The Vice-Consul cover
Rating 4.3
The Vice-Consul Marguerite Duras / 王东亮 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2019 The Vice-Consul is a major novel in Marguerite Duras's India cycle. "This was the first book of my life," Duras said of it. The story unfolds on the b…
Love cover
Rating 4.1
Love Marguerite Duras / 王东亮 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2019 Love is one of Duras's major works and a key middle link in her "India Cycle," connecting the novels The Ravishing of Lol Stein and The Vice-Consul on…
Love (Little Classics Series) cover
Rating 3.9
Love (Little Classics Series) Marguerite Duras / 王东亮 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2019 Love is virtually a sequel to The Ravishing of Lol Stein. Sattala, a city of love and memory. Into this desolate place come a traveler, a walking man,…
India Song cover
Rating 3.7
India Song Marguerite Duras / 王东亮 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2019 Written by Marguerite Duras, India Song is the most successful film of her directing career and, like Hiroshima mon amour, one of her international ca…

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Shanghai Translation Publishing House