Go to your Brazil

★ A collection of essays by the poet and scholar Hu Xudong during his stay in Brazil, revised and updated on the third anniversary of the author's death★ It is a splendid carnival among strange people and events, and a deep observation full of resonance and pain★ The warm, messy, free and pure aesthetics of the Third World re-imagines a close connection with another way of life————————————

"Go to Your Brazil" primarily collects over 150 essays, totaling 220,000 words, written by Hu Xudong about Brazil during his stay there between 2003 and 2005. The book is divided into six volumes: the first, "Rio, Rio," explores Brazil's natural scenery, festivals, and customs; the second, "My Brazilian Kitchen," explores Brazil's unique products and cuisine; the third, "Don't Pretend, We All Know You're Brazilian," chronicles the friends the author made in Brazil and the extraordinary people and events he witnessed; the fourth, "Into the Dark Caverns of 'City of God,'" focuses on observations of Brazilian social phenomena; the fifth, "All About the Girls of Ipanema," focuses on Brazilian culture, art, and intellectual communities. The new edition also adds the sixth, "Return to Brazil," which includes four essays written during the author's visits to Brazil in 2014 and 2018.
The author's language is compact, concise, and playful, with a distinctly personal touch. In a relaxed manner, he offers Chinese readers a glimpse into the diverse facets of Brazilian society and life, encompassing both personal experiences and insights from his travels and a rich tapestry of humanities, geography, history, and folklore. This truly remarkable collection of cultural essays is prefaced by four prefaces by Shen Youyou, Zhu Jingjiang, Yin Lichuan, and Zi Feiyu. In addition to the author's afterword, a revised afterword by his widow, Azi, has been added at the end. These texts offer a deeper understanding of Hu Xudong, the man and his work. His unrestrained personality, intense curiosity, and vast intellectual resources not only reflect his personal charm but also his belonging to that open and enthusiastic era, bearing witness to a chapter in contemporary history.
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As a Peking University professor, Hu Xudong is not like many others, concerned with publications, academic titles, income, or housing. His thoughts are always on his students, poetry, and the purest Peking University life. Of us, he probably retains the true nature of the 1990s the most completely, constantly reminding me of the Peking University before 1993. —Wu Fei Brazil has become a key word in describing Hu Zi. He directs a Brazilian Cultural Research Center at Peking University, teaching courses on Brazilian culture and Portuguese literature, and relies on the optimism he gained from his experience in Brazil to heal all the unhappiness in life. —Zhu Jingjiang Hu Xudong is the medium of everything. He not only enlivens the atmosphere, but also "lives it," and more and more people find themselves immersed in it. This also makes me want to tell him that when he was most active in writing his columns, everyone was waiting for the next day's edition of the Beijing News to see which people and events around them were "woven" into his exhilarating rhetorical pace. The person being “made up” might symbolically cry out “injustice,” but even if there is a slight “distortion,” through his hands, everything becomes a higher “truth”: more historical wildness, more worldly wonders. —Wang Pu

2024-11-01

上海人民出版社

Century Wenjing

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9787208189652