莫言是一个撕下程序化宣传海报，将凡夫俗子一个个推上台面的诗人。他以冷嘲热讽的笔致抨击历史及其作伪，以及剥夺的行为和政治伪装。他戏谑地揭示了人生境遇中最阴暗的方面，漫不经心地摸索出极富象征力的形象。
North-eastern Gaomi county embodies China’s folk tales and history. Few real journeys can surpass these to a realm where the clamour of donkeys and pigs drowns out the voices of the people’s commissars and where both love and evil assume supernatural proportions.
高密县东北乡体现了中国的民间故事和历史，不通过此类故事，你几乎很难脚踏实地地进入一个驴吼猪叫淹没了党政领声音的国度，在那里，爱和恶的呈现已达到超自然的程度。
Mo Yan’s imagination soars across the entire human existence. He is a wonderful portrayer of nature; he knows virtually all there is to know about hunger, and the brutality of China’s 20th century has probably never been described so nakedly, with heroes, lovers, torturers, bandits – and especially, strong, indomitable mothers. He shows us a world without truth, common sense or compassion, a world where people are reckless, helpless and absurd.
