The Master (The French List) - Hardcover

Rambaud, Patrick

 
9781803090627: The Master (The French List)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1803090626 ISBN 13: 9781803090627
Verlag: Seagull Books London Ltd, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

The extraordinary life of Zhuang Zhou sits halfway between fable and philosophy.

“It was twenty-five centuries ago in the land of Song, between the Yellow River and the River Huai: Zhuang Zhou was born without a cry with his eyes wide open.”
 
Welcome to China in the fifth century BCE, a colorful, violent, unstable world into which Zhuang is born. Here royals raise huge armies, constantly waging wars against one another. They have slaves, concubines. Gold is everywhere. And so is hunger. Born rich and entitled, Zhuang learns to refuse any official function. His travels bring him closer to ordinary people, from whom he learns how to live a simple and useful life. This is how he will become one of the greatest Chinese philosophers who gave his name to his legendary book, the Zhuangzi, one of the two foundational texts of Taoism—a magnificent procession of lively stories in which we meet dwarfs, virtuous bandits, butchers, powerful lords in their castles, turtles, charming concubines, and false sages. In this remarkable bildungsroman, award-winning French novelist Patrick Rambaud spins out the extraordinary life of Zhuang Zhou—a poetic, cruel, and often humorous tale, halfway between fable and philosophy.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Patrick Rambaud is a French writer who won the Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize, for his historical novel The Battle. He founded the iconic French journal Actuel. David Ball is an award-winning translator. Nicole Ball is an award-winning translator of English and French.
 

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Verlag
Seagull Books London Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1803090626
ISBN 13 
9781803090627
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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