A magical, impressionistic autobiography by China’s legendary poet Bei Dao
In 2001, to visit his sick father, the exiled poet Bei Dao returned to his homeland for the first time in over twenty years. The city of his birth was totally unrecognizable. “My city that once was had vanished, ” he writes: “I was a foreigner in my hometown.” The shock of this experience released a flood of memories and emotions that sparkedOpen Up, City Gate. In this lyrical autobiography of growing up—from the birth of the People’s Republic, through the chaotic years of the Great Leap Forward, and on into the Cultural Revolution—Bei Dao uses his extraordinary gifts as a poet and storyteller to create another Beijing, a beautiful memory palace of endless alleyways and corridors, where personal narrative mixes with the momentous history he lived through. At the center of the book are his parents and siblings, and their everyday life together through famine and festival.
Open Up, City Gate is told in an episodic, fluid style that moves back and forth through the poet’s childhood, recreating the smells and sounds, the laughter and the danger, of a boy’s coming of age during a time of enormous change and upheaval.
A propos de l’auteur
Jeffrey Yang is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Line and Light. His translations include Ahmatjan Osman’s Uyghurland, The Farthest Exile and Bei Dao’s autobiography City Gate, Open Up: “crafted with poetic precision and enriched by Yang’s assiduous translation” (The Wall Street Journal).
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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 320 ● ISBN 9780811226448 ● Taille du fichier 4.0 MB ● Traducteur Jeffrey Yang ● Maison d’édition New Directions ● Pays US ● Publié 2017 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 7470028 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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