Spring has no Kafka (Only after experiencing its life will you understand its greatness.)

Author: Li Liwei
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: This is a dreamlike journey woven with literature as the longitude and history as the latitude. By the shores of Walden Pond, read Thoreau; wait for nightfall and the first glow of moonlight. In Pompeii, flip through the letters and memories of Little Pliny, imagining how his erudite and courageous uncle met a revered end in that famous disaster. In London, wander through the neighborhoods once beloved by Lamb, and from Essays of Elia witness the historical arc a city has traversed—from Asia to Europe. Li Liwei walks step by step, sharing the scenery with sensitive and noble words, and magnificent, exquisite images. Time and space, evidence and remembrance—these intersections enrich the scenery before his eyes and make the earth beneath his feet heavy. He says, "I have always believed that no point of longitude and latitude on Earth exists in isolation. No matter how beautiful the scenery, it is not a garden newly built on an isolated island yesterday. Placing it within the coordinates of global geography reveals that it is but one link in a complex chain. Placing it within the coordinates of time reveals the origins of its present state."