本书由三个文本组成。 *个文本是D（狄亚努斯）的日志，它构成了被称为 鼠的故事 的*部分。这部分以D的视角展开，记述了他与B的情乱，同时，在这场混乱的激情中，A（阿尔法主教）作为一个衔接D与B之关系的人物在场。 *部分也涉及了D与E的情乱，而这构成了第二个文本的记述核心。第二部分被称为 狄亚努斯 ，是A的笔记。这部分以A的视角展开。 这两个文本共同结构了本书的故事。被称为 俄瑞斯忒斯 的第三部分则更像是一个总的视角，或者说，一则诗性概述。它由诗歌和诗论组成。巴塔耶写道： 为了在一片明显的不可能中抓住一丝可能，我必须首先想象相反的情境。

传说，夜深人静时分，走过那条小路的人，一定会满脸惊怖，血流满面，死在路上。她不信，一个人去了。最终怎么样呢？她死前拼尽全力说了两句话：“一定要死的！逃不掉的！”怪象环生，生灵罹难，一切都源于50年前的怀冤觅死的那个女生？何健飞、田音榛、阿强、李老伯、冬蕗、张君行、谭星莞带你走上这趟不归路

《地球杀场》是一部英雄史诗般的科幻小说。故事发生在公元三千年的时候，地球已被外星入侵者——塞库洛统治了若干个世纪。塞库洛用毒气毁灭地球人类，对捕获到的幸存者施以暴虐；他们依靠庞大的星系矿业公司，主宰着银河系。 在洛基山脉的一个贫瘠荒凉的小山村，幸存的人类过着野蛮人的生活。乔尼·泰勒决定出走山庄，去寻找乐土，不幸落入塞库洛的魔爪。在其他幸存者：苏格兰人、中国人、俄国人的帮助之下，乔尼巧妙地与宇宙间邪恶势力周旋，并运用人类的智慧，战胜了塞库洛和别的企图瓜分地球的外星入侵者。

Mild, harmless and ugly to behold, the impoverished Pons is anageing musician whose brief fame has fallen to nothing. Living aplacid Parisian life as a bachelor in a shared apartment with hisfriend Schmucke, he maintains only two passions: a devotion to finedining in the company of wealthy but disdainful relatives, and adedication to the collection of antiques. When these relativesbecome aware of the true value of his art collection, however,their sneering contempt for the parasitic Pons rapidly falls awayas they struggle to obtain a piece of the weakening man'sinheritance. Taking its place in the Human Comedy as a companion toCousin Bette, the darkly humorous "Cousin Pons" is among of thelast and greatest of Balzac's novels concerning French urbansociety: a cynical, pessimistic but never despairing considerationof human nature.

Dread, yearning, identity, intrigue, the lethal chemistrybetween secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism–these are the elementsthat Orhan Pamuk anneals in this masterful, disquieting novel. Anexiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorncity of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave ofsuicides among religious girls forbidden to wear theirhead-scarves. But Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiantIpek, now recently divorced. Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, Ka finds himselfpursued by figures ranging from Ipek’s ex-husband to a charismaticterrorist. A lost gift returns with ecstatic suddenness. Atheatrical evening climaxes in a massacre. And finding god may bethe prelude to losing everything else. Touching, slyly comic, andhumming with cerebral suspense, Snow is of immense relevance to ourpresent moment.

This textbook series provides concise and lucidintroductions to major works of literature, from classicalantiquity to the twentieth century. Each book provides closereading of the text, as well as giving a full account of itshistorical, cultural and intellectual background, a discussion ofits influence, and further reading. --This text refers to anout of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Jailbird takes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in government and in the heart. This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentiary as Watergate s least known co-conspirator. But the humor turns dark when Vonnegut shines his spotlight on the cold hearts and calculated greed of the mighty, giving a razor-sharp edge to an unforgettable portrait of power and politics in our times.

In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over thecourse of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understandthe chemistry of his] passion" for the word. From musings onPtolemy and "the force of the false" to reflections on theexperimental writing of Borges and Joyce, Eco's luminousintelligence and encyclopedic knowledge are on dazzling displaythroughout. And when he reveals his own ambitions andsuperstitions, his authorial anxieties and fears, one feels like asecret sharer in the garden of literature to which he so oftenalludes. Remarkably accessibleand unfailingly stimulating, this collection exhibits the diversityof interests and the depth of knowledge that have made Eco one ofthe world's leading writers.

Book De*ion At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, anda brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is atransporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue ofsixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominentcontemporary Turkish writers. The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artistsin the land to create a great book celebrating the glories of hisrealm. Their task: to illuminate the work in the European style.But because figurative art can be deemed an affront to Islam, thiscommission is a dangerous proposition indeed. The ruling elitetherefore mustn’t know the full scope or nature of the project, andpanic erupts when one of the chosen miniaturists disappears. Theonly clue to the mystery–or crime? –lies in the half-finishedilluminations themselves. Part fantasy and part philosophicalpuzzle, My Name is Red is a kaleidoscopic journey to theintersection of art, religion, love, sex and power. Translated from th

From the first tee to the nineteenth hole, here's a collection of above-par cartoons and comic strips featuring favorite cartoon characters on the links, in the rough, and out of luck when it comes to the game of golf!

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The story of the mysteriousindictment, trial, and reckoning forced upon Joseph K. in FranzKafka's "The Trial" is one of the twentieth century's masterparables, reflecting the central spiritual crises of modern life.Kafka's method-one that has influenced, in some way, almost everywriter of substance who followed him-was to render the absurd andthe terrifying convincing by a scrupulous, hyperrealmatter-of-factness of tone and treatment. He thereby imparted tohis work a level of seriousness normally associated withcivilization's most cherished poems and religious texts. Translatedby Willa and Edwin Muir

Clym Yeobright returns from Paris to the village of his birth,inspired to improve the life of its men and women. But his plansare upset when he falls in love with a beautiful, darklydiscontented girl, Eustacia Vye, who longs to escape from herprovincial surroundings.

andquot; My intention is to portray a truly beautifulsoul.andquot; -- Dostoevsky Despite the harsh circumstancesbesetting his own life -- object poverty, incessant gambling, thedeath of his firstborn child -- Dostoevsky produced a secondmasterpiece, The Idiot, just two years after completing Crime andPunishment. In it, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust intothe heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power and sexualconquest than with the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon findshimself at the center of a violent love triangle in which anotorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for hisaffections. Extortion, scandal and murder follow, testing Myshkin'smoral feelings as Dostoevsky searches through the wreckage left byhuman misery to find andquot; man in man.andquot; The Idiot is aquintessentially Russian novel, one that penetrates the complexpsyche of the Russian people. andquot; They call me a psychologist,andquot; wrote Dostoevsky. andquot; That is not true. I'm only arealist in

The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his nativeRussian and the crowning achievement of that period in his literarycareer. It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the worksof Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative: thestory of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished e migre poetliving in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write--abook very much like The Gift itself.

Flamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzlingpersonality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparklingcomedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever writtenfor the English stage. Here in one volume are his immensely popularnovel, The Picture of Dorian Gray; his last literary work, “TheBallad of Reading Gaol,” a product of his own prison experience;and four complete plays: Lady Windermere’s Fan, his first dramaticsuccess, An Ideal Husband, which pokes fun at conventionalmorality, The Importance of Being Earnest, his finest comedy, andSalomé, a portrait of uncontrollable love originally written inFrench and faithfully translated by Richard Ellmann. Every selection appears in its entirety–a marvelous collection ofoutstanding works by the incomparable Oscar Wilde, who’s been aptlycalled “a lord of language” by Max Beerbohm.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Three classic crime novels by amaster of the macabre appear here together in hardcover for thefirst time. Suave, agreeable, and completely amoral, PatriciaHighsmith's hero, the inimitable Tom Ripley, stops at nothing--noteven murder-- to accomplish his goals. In achieving for himself theopulent life that he was denied as a child, Ripley shows himself tobe a master of illusion and manipulation and a disturbinglysympathetic combination of genius and psychopath. As Highsmithnavigates the mesmerizing tangle of Ripley's deadly and sinistergames, she turns the mystery genre inside out and takes us into themind of a man utterly indifferent to evil. The Talented Mr.RipleyIn a chilling literary hall of mirrors, Patricia Highsmithintroduces Tom Ripley. Like a hero in a latter-day Henry Jamesnovel, is sent to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal youngAmerican back to his wealthy father. But Ripley finds himself veryfond of Dickie Greenleaf. He wants to be like him--exactly likehim.

This novel's unsentimental evocation of childhood in theEnglish countryside stands as an enduring triumph; but equallymemorable are its portrayal of a narrow, tradition-bound society,its striking, superbly drawn heroine, Maggie Tulliver, and itsdramatic unfolding of tragic human destiny.

A classic tour of the wild west In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot inthe Wild West—and Roughing It is his hilarious record of histravels come to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting,social satire, and rollicking tall tales.

A mix of writers historical and modern, male and female, thisanthology includes works by such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin,Martin Luther King, Jr., Erma Bombeck, Sandra Cisneros, AlbertEinstein, Abigail Adams, Mark Twain, Eudora Welty, and John F.Kennedy.

In the "brilliant novel" ("The New York Times") V.S. Naipaultakes us deeply into the life of one man--an Indian who, uprootedby the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in anisolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independentAfrican nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbingvision yet of what happens in a place caught between thedangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past andtraditions.

To me,' D. H. Lawerence once wrote to E. M. forster, 'you arethe last Englishman.' Indeed, Forster's novels offer contemporaryreaders clear, vibrant portraits of life in Edwardian England.Published in 1908 to both critical and popular acclaim, A Room witha View is a whimsical comedy of manners that owes more to JaneAusten that perhaps any other of his works. The central characteris a muddled young girl named Lucy Honeychurch, who runs away fromthe man who stirs her emotions, remaining engaged to a rich snob.Forster considered it his 'nicest' novel, and today it remainsprobably his most well liked. Its moral is utterly simple. Throwaway your etiquette book and listen to your heart. But it wasForster's next book, Howards End, a story about who would inhabit acharming old country house (and who, in a larger sense, wouldinherit England), that earned him recognition as a major writer.Centered around the conflict between the wealthy, materialisticWilcox family and the cultured, idealistic Schlegel sisters-andinfor

Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies avision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dreamcountry, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death bybeheading for andquot; gnostical turpitude.andquot; an imaginarycrime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days inan absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers. anexecutioner who masquerades as a fellow prisoner, and by hisin-laws. who lug their furniture with them into his cell. WhenCincinnatus is led out to be executed. he simply wills hisexecutioners out of existence: they disappear, along with the wholeworld they inhabit.