Ma Zuo

If you’re going to do random ass, bullshit storytelling like this, you need to draw a helluva lot better than this fool.

Zuo Ma uses up a lot of ink drawing these semi-autobiographical short stories that are rife with dream logic, dream sequences, free association, and the sort of psychedelic storytelling I dislike immensely. He obviously has some anxiety about being an artist, Chinese urbanization, and the death of his grandmother who suffered from dementia, but did we need all the UFOs, insects, and fantasy sequences?

FYI: This is an omnibus edition (410 pages) of two short story collections by Zuo Ma (左马):
• Walk (Chinese title: 散步, first published: 2013, 220 pages)
• Night Bus (Chinese title: 夜间巴士, first published: 2018, 214 pages)… (altro)