Read People Chronicle · Foreign Edition

Author: Han Xiaohui
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Publish Date: 2001-09-01
Features: The content of this book is divided into three sections.
Section 1: On O'Neill's Sense of Restraint; Balzac Forever; The Worshipper of Three Heavenly Bodies; Solitude in Pine Forest—M. Zoshchenko; Rilke: Thunder at Castle Kitzbühel; The Tomb Without a Name—On Keats; On Goethe; The Trans-Time Uncle—Hardy; Distant Sighs—Juan Rulfo; The Childhood of Humanity—A Letter from a Surviving Beetle to Kafka; Six Writers' Places; Hannah Arendt: Loving the World; The Stranger's Coat Pocket—Borges; Buried in Resistance—Simone de Beauvoir;
Section 2: Picasso's Self-Portrait After the War; What Made Hemingway Fall in Love with Paris; Lidiya Expelled from the Writers' Union; The Cross of Suffering—Anna Akhmatova; Mozart: The Pride of the Alps; etc.;
Section 3: The Western Wife Nadezhda; The Engineer's Flag—Sakheta—Memoirs of the Early Days of the Navy; Remembering Archimedes; Kundera's World of Life and World of Fiction; Did Brezhnev Ever Work as Stalin's Translator? etc.