Book of Failure

Author: Bei Dao
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: The Book of Failure is a collection of essays by the poet Bei Dao. These essays are a collection of gleanings from the poet's journey of wandering. Bei Dao has said that there is a mutual relationship between essays and wandering, in fashionable terms: essays are the wandering of words, while wandering is the writing of geography and society. Between 1989 and 1993, he lived in seven countries and moved fifteen times, which is a context of essays. Since the late 1980s, when Bei Dao moved abroad, he began his life of wandering, continuously creating amidst his travels.