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Author | : Boris Vian |
Publisher | : Tamtam Books |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Fiction. Translated from the French by Paul Knobloch. Originally published in 1947. "In the Exopotamian desert, where hepatrols blossom and children collect little animals called sandpeepers, the sun shines in an unusual way: it produces eerie black zones whose mysteries remain unexplained. Above all, Vian's pecurilar way with language proves that, indeed, life in the desert is equal to none. Since unusual language is bound to produce unusual fiction, it follows that the story does not take place in the fall, nor is it set in China" - from the Foreword by Marc Lapprand. The fourth novel by Vian, who was a contemporary of Sartre and Beauvoir. His innovative style, cutting-edge during his lifetime, but only successful in the sixties, made him an icon of the May 1968 student movement.
Author | : Boris Vian |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1988 |
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Author | : Frances Wood |
Publisher | : John Murray Pubs Limited |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780719557811 |
In 1975 I went to Peking for a year, together with nine other British students who had been exchanged by the British Council for ten Chinese students. The latter knew exactly what they were doing: learning English in order to further the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. We were less sure. From 1966, China had been turned upside down by young Red Guards who were encouraged to Bombard the Headquarters'. Professors, surgeons, artists, pianists, novelists and film directors were attacked for their bourgeois pursuit of excellence or their attachment to decadent Western ideas. Though by 1975 there were no longer violent street battles or badly beaten bodies floating down the Pearl River, we found Peking University governed by a Revolutionary Committee of workers, peasants and Party members determined that we should not learn too much and become experts divorced from the masses. With our Chinese classmates, we spent half our time in factories, getting in the way of workers making railway engines, or in the fields, learning from peasants how to bundle cabbage or plant rice seedlings in muddy water. Heroically, we stayed up half the night to dig rather shallow underground shelter
Author | : Haizi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Poetry |
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Poetry. East Asia Studies. Translated from the Chinese by Dan Murphy. In the six years prior to his death, Hai Zi wrote over 250 short poems, a number of poetic plays, long poems totaling over 400 pages, and several short stories. His verse illuminates the poverty and desperation of his peasant upbringing, reflects on China's literary and cultural history, and touches down on the grasslands and wheat fields of western China, but he is not simply a cultural poet or a nature poet—his poetry transcends all of this. In OVER AUTUMN ROOFTOPS, Host Publications is proud to make available to English-speaking audiences the work of this profound and beloved poet.
Author | : Boris Vian |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2021-08-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1496215133 |
"[Blues for a Black Cat] brings back the nimble Vian in a collection of his short fiction, initially published as Les Fourmis in 1949. The work has the unmistakable flavor of the time and place, Claude Abadie's jazz band, the coded and absurdist messages of rebellion, the wistful fables, verbal riffs and goofy anarchic encounters; the mise-en-scene includes an expiring jazzman who sells his sweat, a cat with a British accent and a piano that mixes a cocktail when "Mood Indigo" is played."--Boston Globe
Author | : Michael J. Moser |
Publisher | : Serindia Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Beijing (China) |
ISBN | : 9781932476316 |
The legation quarter housed foreigners in Peking, creating a miniature Europe in which no Chinese were permitted. The quarter was repossessed by the Chinese government after 1949.
Author | : Boris Vian |
Publisher | : Dalkey Archive Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781564782991 |
Boris Vian s early death robbed French literature of a novelist who was coherent while still modern. Heartsnatcher is an esoteric, surrealistic comedy about guilt, set in a deceptively familiar, almost ordinary locale. New Statesman
Author | : Stephen R. Platt |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 609 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307961745 |
As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate.
Author | : Fang Lizhi |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2016-02-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1627794999 |
"A long-awaited memoir by the celebrated physicist whose clashes with the Chinese regime helped inspired the Tiananmen Square protests describes how in spite of his scientific contributions he was sentenced to hard labor for decades and eventually sought asylum from the U.S., "--NoveList.
Author | : Boris Vian |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2014-06-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374534225 |
Presents a story in which a husband must try to keep his ill wife alive by constantly surrounding her with fresh flowers.