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。

The protagonist of Orhan Pamuk's fiendishly engaging novel islaunched into a world of hypnotic texts and (literally) Byzantineconspiracies that whirl across the steppes and forlorn frontiertowns of Turkey. And with The New Life, Pamuk himself vaults fromthe forefront of his country's writers into the arena of worldliterature. Through the single act of reading a book, a youngstudent is uprooted from his old life and identity. Within days hehas fallen in love with the luminous and elusive Janan; witnessedthe attempted assassination of a rival suitor; and forsaken hisfamily to travel aimlessly through a nocturnal landscape oftraveler's cafes and apocalyptic bus wrecks. As imagined by Pamuk,the result is a wondrous marriage of the intellectual thriller andhigh romance. Translated from the Turkish by Guneli Gun.

Almayer’s Folly, Joseph Conrad’s first novel, is a tale ofpersonal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils ofcolonialism. Set in the lush jungle of Borneo in the late 1800s, ittells of the Dutch merchant Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of richesfor his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of hisown greed and prejudice. Nadine Gordimer writes in herIntroduction, “Conrad’s writing is lifelong questioning . . . Whatwas ‘Almayer’s Folly’? The pretentious house never lived in? Hisobsession with gold? His obsessive love for his daughter, whoseprogenitors, the Malay race, he despised? All three?” Conradestablished in Almayer’s Folly the themes of betrayal, isolation,and colonialism that he would explore throughout the rest of hislife and work.

From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Borges,Nabokov, and DeLillo comes a dazzling novel that is at once acaptivating work of historical fiction and a sinuous treatise onthe enigma of identity and the relations between East and West. Inthe 17th century, a young Italian scholar sailing from Venice toNaples is taken prisoner and delivered to Constantinople There hefalls into the custody of a scholar known as Hoja--"master"--a manwho is his exact double. In the years that follow, the slaveinstructs his master in Western science and technology, frommedicine to pyrotechnics. But Hoja wants to know more: why he andhis captive are the persons they are and whether, given knowledgeof each other's most intimate secrets, they could actually exchangeidentities. Set in a world of magnificent scholarship andterrifying savagery, The White Castle is a colorful and intricatelypatterned triumph of the imagination. Translated from the Turkishby Victoria Holbrook.

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The dramatic concluding months of The Wars of the Rosesprovide the setting for Shakespeare’s incomparable saga of powerand intrigue. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and EricRasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars,this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts andauthoritative notes from William Shakespeare: CompleteWorks. Each play includes an Introduction as well as anoverview of Shakespeare’s theatrical career; commentary on past andcurrent productions based on interviews with leading directors,actors, and designers; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about thework; a chronology of Shakespeare’s life and times; andblack-and-white illustrations. Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers,these modern and accessible editions set a new standard inShakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.

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Shakespeare became famous as a dazzling poet before most peopleeven knew that he wrote plays. His sonnets are the Englishlanguage's most extraordinary anatomy of love in all itsdimensions-desire and despair, longing and loss, adoration anddisgust. To read them is to confront morality and eternity in thesame breath. Produced under the editorial supervision of JonathanBate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today's most accomplishedShakespearean scholars, The Sonnets and Other Poems includes all ofShakespeare's sonnets, the long narrative poems "Venus and Adonis"and "The Rape of Lucrece," and several other shorter works.Incorporating definitive texts and authoritative notes from WilliamShakespeare: Complete Works, this unique volume also includes anexpanded Introduction by Jonathan Bate that places the poems inliterary and historical context and illuminates their relationshipto Shakespeare's dramatic writing. Also featured are key factsabout the individual selections; an index of the first lines of thesonnets; a chron

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