Dai Sijie was born in China in 1954. He grew up working in his father's tailor
shop and he himself became a skilled tailor.
The Maoist government sent him to a reeducation camp in rural Sichuan
from 1971 to 1974, during the Cultural Revolution. After his return, he was able to complete
high school and university, where he studied art history. In 1984, he left China for France on a
scholarship. There, he acquired a
passion for movies and became a director.
Before turning to writing, he made three critically acclaimed
feature-length films: China, My Sorrow
(1989) (original title: Chine, ma douleur), Le mangeur de lune and Tang, le
onzième. He also wrote and directed an
adaptation of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, released in 2002. He lives in Paris and writes in French. See a
list of his books at http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5836922.Dai_Sijie
Fu Lei got
his given name due to his thunderous cry when he was born in 1908 as Lei means
“thunder” in Chinese, which might have preordained his outspoken
character. One year after he entered
Shanghai Chizhi University, he went to France for a four-year further study
(1928 to 1932), listening to literature and art courses at Paris University and
Louvre Academy of Fine Arts History. In
order to learn and master French, he began to translate the short stories by Alphonse
Daudet and Carmen by Prosper Mérimée.
This is the very beginning of his translation practice. Influenced by Romain Rolland, Fu fell in love
with music and art. Invited by the
Italian Royal Society of Geography, he toured Italy and delivered a famous
speech in Rome, eulogizing the military revolution against the warlords at
home. During his stay by Lake Léman, he
translated a local legend from the old calendar of his landlord. In Paris he began to translate the first
chapter of Lectures on Art by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine. He also rendered four prose poems by Ivan
Sergeyevich Turgenev. See "Fu
Lei’s translation activity and legacy", an 183-page research paper by Chuanmao Tian at http://www.academicjournals.org/article/article1379500893_Tian.pdf
A Complete Collection of genteel and
ingenious Conversation,
according to the most polite mode and method now used at Court, and in the best
Companies of England, commonly
known as A
Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, or
more simply as Polite
Conversation is
a book by Jonathan
Swift offering
an ironic and satirical commentary on the perceived banality of conversation
among the upper classes in early-18th century Great Britain written in the form
of a reference guide for those lacking in conversational skill. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Complete_Collection_of_Genteel_and_Ingenious_Conversation One theory about A Complete Collection of
Genteel and Ingenious Conversation is that the phrase It's Raining Cats and
Dogs came from it.
It's
Raining Cats and Dogs, Part 1 http://wordhistories.com/2013/08/03/raining-cats-and-dogs/
It's
Raining Cats and Dogs, Part 2 http://wordhistories.com/2013/11/04/raining-cats-and-dogs-2/
The
Battle of the Books is the name of a short satire written
by Jonathan Swift and published as part of the prolegomena to his A
Tale of a Tub in
1704. It depicts a literal battle
between books in the King's Library (housed in St. James's Palace at the time of the writing), as ideas and authors
struggle for supremacy. Because of the
satire, "The Battle of the Books" has become a term for the Quarrel
of the Ancients and the Moderns. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_the_Books
The metaphor of dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants (Latin: nanos gigantum humeris insidentes) expresses the meaning of "discovering truth by
building on previous discoveries".
While it can be traced to at least the 12th century, attributed to Bernard of Chartres, its most familiar
expression in English is found in a 1676 letter of Isaac
Newton: If I have seen further it is
by standing on the shoulders of giants. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants
noia suffix meaning "(condition of the) mind or will": aponoia, hypernoia, hyponoia.
Mosby's Medical
Dictionary, 8th edition. © 2009, Elsevier.
Long-running book series (numbers as of March 2015)
The Railway Series, v.
1-26 written by Wilbert Awdry, v. 27-42 written by Christopher Awdry
Maigret series, 75 v. by
Simenon
Perry Mason series, 86 v.
by Erle Stanley Gardner
87th Precinct series, 86
v. by Ed McBain
Ed
McBain (1926–2005) was an American author and screenwriter. Born Salvatore Albert Lombino, he
legally changed his name to Evan Hunter in May 1952, after an editor
told him that a novel he wrote would sell more copies if credited to Evan
Hunter than it would if it were credited to S.A. Lombino. Thereafter, he used the name Evan Hunter both
personally and professionally. As Evan
Hunter, he gained notice with his 1954 novel Blackboard
Jungle. Dealing with juvenile crime
and the New York City public school system, the film version followed in 1955. During this era, Hunter also wrote a great
deal of genre fiction. He was advised by
his agents that publishing too much fiction under the Hunter byline, or
publishing any crime
fiction as Evan Hunter, might weaken his literary reputation. As a consequence, during the 1950s Hunter
used the pseudonyms Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, and Richard Marsten for much of
his crime fiction . A prolific author in several genres, Hunter also published
approximately two dozen science fiction stories and four SF novels between 1951
and 1956 under the names S.A. Lombino, Evan Hunter, Richard Marsten, D.A.
Addams and Ted Taine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_McBain
H. Richard Hornberger, who wrote the novel ''M*A*S*H,'' the inspiration for
the film and long-running television series of the same name, spent most of his life as a thoracic surgeon
in small towns on the Maine coast, but his experiences as a captain in the Army
Medical Corps during the Korean War led him to write three novels after
returning from combat. He worked for 12
years on the first, ''M*A*S*H,'' which was rejected by many publishers before
William Morrow issued the book in 1968.
The 1970 movie, directed by Robert Altman from a screenplay by Ring
Lardner Jr., was the third-highest grossing film that year and spawned the CBS
series, which ran from 1972 until 1983 and was one of the most popular shows in
television history. Dr. Hornberger
modeled the character of Capt. Benjamin Franklin (Hawkeye) Pierce after himself. Dr. Hornberger used the pseudonym Richard Hooker
in his writing. After ''M*A*S*H'' -- an
acronym for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital -- came ''M*A*S*H Goes to Maine'' and
''M*A*S*H Mania.'' Both concerned the
adventures of doctors who had been together in Korea and then came home to work
in coastal Maine--in thinly disguised fictional towns. Lawrie Mifflin http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/07/arts/h-richard-hornberger-73-surgeon-behind-m-a-s-h.html
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1272
March 19, 2015 On this date in
1895, Auguste and
Louis Lumière recorded
their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph. On this date in 1918, Congress established time zones and approved daylight saving
time.
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