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The Adventures of Mao on the Long March is Frederic Tuten's first published novel. The novel is a fictionalized account of Chairman Mao's rise to power, and is highly experimental in nature, including extensive use of parody and collage.
- Frederic Tuten
- 1971
Jul 4, 2010 · frederic tuten, “the adventures of mao on the long march”. The Adventures of Mao on the Long March is a collage-novel which tells, in circuitous fashion, what happened on Mao’s Long March. Although they initially appear to be the same, Tuten’s Long March firmly diverges from Mao’s Long March.
THE ADVENTURES OF MAO was published in America in the fall of 1971, and in France -- thanks to Raymond Queneau -- chez Editions Gallimard in 1975, which has kept it in print. The novel owes its flickering English-language life to rare-book dealers.
Dec 12, 2011 · Yet The Adventures of Mao, about, as the title suggests, the Chinese dictator’s rise to power, has always had its advocates; Susan Sontag called it “soda pop, a cold towel, or a shady spot under a tree for culture-clogged footsoldiers on the American long march.”
Is this a novel? Does it capture for the reader more about Mao’s Long March—or about the literary scene in the U.S. during the nineteen-sixties and early seventies? This is a reprint of a work that appeared first as part of a “box-sculpture” among “stamps, seals… lithographs…” at a time when “young people believed the […]
The Adventures of Mao on the Long March is Frederic Tuten's first published novel. The novel is a fictionalized account of Chairman Mao's rise to power, and is highly experimental in nature, including extensive use of parody and collage.
An icon of literature as American Pop Art, Frederic Tuten’s Adventures of Mao on the Long March is a triumphantly witty and subversive novel. The New York Times called it “almost too good to be true.” Tuten’s deadpan textbook narrative of Mao’s Long March is peppered with loving parodies of Hemingway, Kerouac, Dos Passos, and Malamud.
