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Ladataan... The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po)Tekijä: Ha Jin
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Jin tells the story of an extraordinary personality from a culture that is to me quite unfamiliar, managing to make that culture accessible enough to appreciate that personality in context without being dry. He recreates Li Bai from skeletal and conflicting annals, his sympathetic novelistic imagination, and Li Bai’s poetry. A remarkable feat and a deeply enjoyable account of a flawed fantastic fascinating person, his poetry, and his world. ( ) Li Bai (also sometimes Anglicised as Li Po) was a major poet of the Tang Dynasty, whose work is still a cultural touchstone in China today although he's a fairly obscure figure in the West. I knew nothing more about Li Bai before I began Ha Jin's biography of him than his name. Ha Jin does a good job in conveying Li Bai's gregarious nature and his travels, and writes with clear affection about his subject. However, I found myself wishing for a little more sense of how Li Bai's fame finally grew and more of a sense of how his work has been so influential on later Chinese culture. Ha Jin includes translations of a number of Li Bai's works throughout. Some other reviews that I've read praise them for their fidelity to Li Bai's verse; not reading Chinese, I have no way of assessing that myself. I can say that the imagery and voice of Li Bai's poetry must come through stronger in the original, because I can't say that any of the imagery I read here has really stuck with me. näyttää 2/2 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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"From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting: a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the 8th century poet, Li Bai--also known as Li Po--one of the most beloved poets ever to emerge from China. With the instincts of a master novelist, Ha Jin draws on a wide range of historical and literary sources to weave the life story of Li Bai (701-762), whose poems--shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life--rang throughout the Tang Dynasty and continue to be celebrated today. Jin follows Li Bai from his birth on China's western frontier through his travels as a young man seeking a place among the empire's civil servants, his wanderings allowing him to hone his poetic craft, share his verses, and win him friends and admirers along the way. In his later years, he becomes swept up in a military rebellion that alters the course of China, and his death is surrounded by speculation and legend that continues to be spun to this day. The Banished Immortal is an extraordinary portrait of a poet who both transcended his time and was shaped by it, and whose ability to live, love, and mourn without reservation produced some of the most enduring verses in the world"-- Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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