米歇尔·图尔尼埃(1924-)，法国当代文学大师，当代著名的新寓言派文学的主将。他不仅是才华横溢的小说家，而且是睿智深刻的哲学家。西方批评界对他的小说以及融汇在小说中的现代哲学思想推崇备至，评价极高，认为他以自己独特的风格为法国小说开创了新局面。《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是他的代表作之一，发表当年即获法兰西学院文学大奖。 《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是一篇“现代文明衰亡记”的寓言，它戏仿笛福的名著《鲁滨孙漂流记》的题材，在主题上却反其道而行之。鲁滨孙孤独一人被弃荒岛后，按西方文明社会的模式将荒岛治理得井井有条。礼拜五来到荒岛后，非但没有被驯化为鲁滨孙的奴隶，反而以其自然的天性将文明的迹象破坏得一干二净，同时也慢慢影响了鲁滨孙，使这个西方文明的代表逐步抛弃了原有的文化传统，变成了一个
Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station inBoston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Theroux winds upon the poky, wandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine, whichcomes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thornbushes. But with Theroux the view along the way is what matters:the monologuing Mr. Thornberry in Costa Rica, the bogus priest ofCali, and the blind Jorge Luis Borges, who delights in havingTheroux read Robert Louis Stevenson to him.
The riveting story of a Japanese immigrant who leads a proper,decorous life in a New York suburb. As his life slowly unravels, heis transported back to his days as a medic in the Japanese army inWorld War II, and his obsessive love of a young comfort woman.
Now in paperback- The New York Times bestsellingnovel of rock 'n roll, super fandom, and love, by the belovedauthor of About a Boy and High Fidelity . Nick Hornby returns to his roots-music and messy relationships-inthis funny and touching new novel which thoughtfully andsympathetically looks at how lives can be wasted but how they arenever beyond redemption. Annie lives in a dull town on England'sbleak east coast and is in a relationship with Duncan which mirrorsthe place; Tucker was once a brilliant songwriter and performer,who's gone into seclusion in rural America-or at least that's whathis fans think. Duncan is obsessed with Tucker's work, to the pointof derangement, and when Annie dares to go public on her dislike ofhis latest album, there are quite unexpected, life-changingconsequences for all three. Nick Hornby uses this intriguing canvas to explore why it is we sooften let the early promise of relationships, ambition and indeedlife evaporate. And he comes to some surprisingly optimisticconclu
The collection that established O'Connor's reputation as oneof the american masters of the short story. The volume contains thecelebrated title story, a tale of the murderous fugitive TheMisfit, as well as "The Displaced Person" and eight otherstories.
In the Washington Post Book World, Sven Birkerts called thisexuberant novel "a complex and gripping work of invention andconfession . . . I understood again how the prose of a true writercan bring us to a world beyond." The book spans almost thirty yearsin the life of a fictional "Paul Theroux," who moves through youngbachelorhood in Africa, in and out of marriage, affairs, andemployment, and between continents. It's a wry, worldly, erotic,and deeply moving account of one man's first half century - "amongthe strongest things Theroux has ever written" (New York Times BookReview).
A behind-the-scenes, intensley-researched look at the blue-bloodscandal that has riveted not just New York but the world. When thebeloved Mrs. Astor's only child Anthony Marshall was indicted oncharges of looting her estate, the story was covered by the entirenational press corps as well as newspapers way beyond our borders.The fate of Brooke Astor, the endearing philanthropist with astoried name who gave away nearly $200 million to the city--and didso with incomparable class and style--has generated headlines eversince the story broke in 2006 that her grandson Philip had sued hisfather alleging mistreatment of Brooke.
"I was almost born Happy." So begins The Spanish Bow and theremarkable history of Feliu Delargo, who just misses being "Feliz"by a misunderstanding at his birth, which he barely survives. The accidental bequest of a cello bow from his dead father setsFeliu on the course of becoming a musician, unlikely given hisbeginnings in a dusty village in Catalonia. When he is compelled toflee to anarchist Barcelona, his education in music, life, andpolitics begins. But it isn’t until he arrives at the court of theembattled monarchy in Madrid that passion enters the compositionwith Aviva, a virtuoso violinist with a haunted past. As Feliuembarks on affairs, friendships, and rivalries, forces propellingthe world toward a catastrophic crescendo sweep Feliu along intheir wake. The Spanish Bow is a haunting fugue of music, politics, andpassion set against half a century of Spanish history, from thetail end of the nineteenth century up through the Spanish Civil Warand World War II.
Two twentieth-century literary masterpieces from the NobelPrize winner Saul Bellowas Pulitzer Prizeawinning novel exploresthe long friendship between Charlie Citrine, a young man with anintense passion for literature, and the great poet Von HumboldtFleisher. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure,and Charlieas life is falling apart: his career is at a standstill,and heas enmeshed in an acrimonious divorce, infatuated with ahighly unsuitable young woman, and involved with a neuroticmafioso. And then Humboldt acts from beyond the grave, bestowingupon Charlie an unexpected legacy that may just help him turn hislife around.
This book covers a critical part of the Battle ofGettysburg.
Now a classic of the travel genre, The Great Railway Bazaarchronicles Paul Theroux's adventures by rail from Victoria Stationin London to Tokyo Central, told with his signature wryobservations.
