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Bakhtin's feelings of the world is carnival, but behind Yan Lianke's carnival in the surface is the deep sense of tragedy and absurdity.

Disease taught him to treasure his own life, exhausted absurdity with his whole life, also do not hope the future, treasure nowadays.

The idea of ring-fencing life-saving medical knowledge so a few people can profit from it is one of the great grotesqueries of our age.

So it has been immensely sad, and grotesquely unfair, to watch protesters in London and Paris accusing Israel of behaving as the Nazis did.

Sometimes laughter was the only remedy for life in "Absurdistan" , as the Soviet bloc was often called.

I tried to photograph him in a way that would show the absurdity and the sadness of the situation, without exposing him too much.

Still, the subject of absurdity engaged him. 'China is a comedy place, ' he said in his genial though limited English.

But the author, luckily for his readers, laces the sweet plainness of his stories with a sense of the absurd and the frightening.

You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, Wow, you're right! I never would've thought of that! '