Ebook {Epub PDF} A Floating Life by Simon Elegant

A floating life: the adventures of Li Po: an historical novel by Elegant, Simon, Publication date Topics Li, Bo, , Poets Publisher Hopewell, N.J.: Ecco Press Collection An interesting look into the life and times of Li Bai - a poet known by all in China. This is an excellent literary fiction which reveals not only the User Interaction Count:  · Historical fiction about a legendary literary rascal, in a first novel by a Hong Kongbased editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review. Thirteen centuries ago, the Chinese poet Li Po pursued life with a ferocious appetite, being both admired for his verse and notorious for his untrammelled behavior at the court of the Emperor Hsuan Tsung and, later, on the loose pursuing his fortune in the T. Li Po, or Li Bai as he is called in standard Mandarin, is one of those rare such characters in Chinese history, and Simon Elegant brings him convincingly to life, a man of flesh and blood and spirit. I know little of Li Bai; here in China he is much memorialized but less remembered, so the tales in "Floating Life" are as much as I know about the mythology beyond the repute of the poems/5(11).

Sorry, there was a problem saving your cookie preferences. Try again. A Floating Life is a magnificent portrayal of a critical time in China's history and the life of a literary legend. Nearly thirteen hundred years after the fact, Simon Elegant's scrupulously researched novel captures the essence of the eccentric bard of spontaneous verse -- lover of birds, breast milk, courtesans, tavern songs and wine -- in. There is a life of him by Arthur Waley (The Poetry and Career of Li Po, ) and quite a good fictionalized autobiography by Simon Elegant (A Floating Life, ), which includes the author's own translation of this poem, in part. I reviewed the latter book for the Washington Post.

A floating life: the adventures of Li Po: an historical novel Elegant, Simon, Publication date Topics Li, Bo, , Poets Publisher Hopewell, N.J. The Adventures of Li Po [poet]. A Floating Life. Simon Elegant. Thought", which still appear in school texts in China. In the West, multilingual translations of Li's poems continue to be made. life has even taken on a legendary aspect, including tales of drunkenness, chivalry, and the well-known fable that Li drowned when. Simon Elegant is the author of A Floating Life ( avg rating, 76 ratings, 11 reviews, published ) and A Chinese Wedding ( avg rating, 8 rating.