French-Chinese Comparative Biographies of World Famous Figures: Poets Volume

Author: Huang Yanhong
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Milan Kundera wrote in the preface to his novel Living in Another Place: "Since Dante, poets have been great figures across the history of Europe. He is the symbol of national character (Cam?es, Goethe, Mickiewicz, Pushkin), the voice of revolution (Beranger, Pet?fi, Mayakovsky, Lorca), the mouthpiece of history (Hugo, Breton), a mythological figure and an object of actual religious worship (Petrarch, Byron, Rimbaud, Rilke), but above all, he is a representative of a sacred value, which we are willing to write in uppercase: POETRY." Most of the poets included in this volume are French poets, so all chapters are presented in French-Chinese parallel. At the same time, considering the similarities in word formation between English and French, this book uses English annotations to explain the new words and idioms in each article, enabling readers to better understand the meaning of the sentences. Words related to allusions are also explained in footnotes. In this way, readers not only learn about the lives of these human muses but also review French vocabulary and grammar, achieving two goals with one effort.