World Famous People Introduction 5: Poets Volume (French-Chinese Contrastive Translation)

Author: Hu Rong
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Milan Kundera wrote in the preface to his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being: "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 figure in mythology 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, 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 difficult words and idioms in each article, helping readers better understand the meaning. 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.