Book and Portrait

Author: Zou Bo
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: "In an age of clear steam and commercial fervor, there emerged a man who lived solely on imagination, mocking everything that constituted the meaning of his compatriots' lives." Years later, this assessment of Edgar Allan Poe would also gently adhere to Zou Bo, who became increasingly unyielding as an adult. Like Poe, Zou Bo tried to enter society but ultimately found himself out of place. He hid in the dream woven by words and sincerely believed at the time that he had grasped all the secrets of the world. His reliance on fantasy and literature made Zou Bo a true "fundamentalist of the written word," avoiding all clichés as if they were a plague.