Entry: I have not yet read this book Ma Jian. And I do not intend to read it, until it has been translated from the original Chinese. Indeed the French translation is based on the English translation by Flora Drew (Ma Jian's girlfriend). Readers of this edition would thus be in the position of "an acquaintance told me that one of his conaissances told her ..." - a pity, even pity; especially at a time on which the translations are often problematic.
