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。
《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。
In this classic novel by John Updike, we return to a characteras compelling and timeless as Rabbit Angstrom: the inimitable HenryBech. Famous for his writer's block, Bech is a Jew adrift in aworld of Gentiles. As he roams from one adventure to the next, heviews life with a blend of wonder and cynicism that will make youlaugh with delight and wince in recognition.
From her humble beginnings as the daughter of a countrysideblacksmith, Emy Lyon went on to claim the undying love of navalhero Admiral Nelson, England’s most famous native son. She servedas model and muse to eighteenth-century Europe’s most renownedartists, and consorted with kings and queens at the royal court ofNaples. Yet she would end her life in disgraced exile, pennilessand alone. In this richly drawn portrait, Flora Fraser maps thespectacular rise and fall of legendary eighteenth-century beautyEmma, Lady Hamilton—as she came to be called—a woman of abundantaffection and overwhelming charm, whose eye for opportunity wasrivaled only by her propensity for overindulgence and scandal.Wonderfully intimate and lavishly detailed, Beloved Emma brings to life the incomparable Lady Hamilton and the politics,passions, and enchantments of her day.
Because of its frank treatment of human sexuality and itsunflinching fatalism, Jude the Obscure aroused such a stormof controversy upon its publication in 1895 that, partly inresponse, Thomas Hardy abandoned the art of novel-writingaltogether and devoted the rest of his life to poetry. Though wehave come a long way in our social attitudes in the ensuingcentury, nothing about Hardy's masterpiece has lost its power toshock us and disturb our dreams.
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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.
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JOHN UPDIKE IS "A STYLIST OF THE HIGHEST ORDER, capable ofilluminating the sublime in the mundane, thereby elevating all ofhuman experience."--Chicago Tribune Toward the End of Time "is the journal of a 66-year-old man, BenTurnbull . . . [which] reveals not only the world but thewanderings of his wits. . . . So what if he jumps from a UnitedStates in the next century, disintegrating after a war with China,to ancient Egypt, or to virtual reality? So what if charactersappear and disappear like phantoms in a dream? . . . Turnbull'sjournal is like Walden gone haywire. . . . If Ben's ruthlessness isevenhanded, so is his alarming intelligence; it falls on everyscene, person, object, and thought in the book, giving it an eerieambiance." --The New York Times Book Review "A BOOK AIMED NOT TO RESOLVE BUT TO AROUSE A READER'S WONDER . .. Vintage Updike: marital angst worked out against the chillybackdrop of privilege, rendered with a lyricism and insight and eyefor detail reminiscent of the work of Jane Austen." --Th
In his triumphant new novel, Ian McEwan, the bestsellingauthor of "Atonement, "follows an ordinary man through a Saturdaywhose high promise gradually turns nightmarish. Henry Perowne-aneurosurgeon, urbane, privileged, deeply in love with his wife andgrown-up children-plans to play a game of squash, visit his elderlymother, and cook dinner for his family. But after a minor trafficaccident leads to an unsettling confrontation, Perowne must setaside his plans and summon a strength greater than he knew he hadin order to preserve the life that is dear to him.
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
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Nikolai Gogol's "Dead Souls" isthe great comic masterpiece of Russian literature-a satirical andsplendidly exaggerated epic of life in the benighted provinces.Gogol hoped to show the world "the untold riches of the Russiansoul" in this 1842 novel, which he populated with a Dickensianswarm of characters: rogues and scoundrels, landowners and serfs,conniving petty officials-all of them both utterly lifelike andalarmingly larger than life. Setting everything in motion is thewily antihero, Chichikov, the trafficker in "dead souls"-deceasedserfs who still represent profit to those clever enough to trade inthem. This lively, idiomatic English version by the award-winningtranslators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky makes accessiblethe full extent of the novel's lyricism, sulphurous humor, anddelight in human oddity and error.
In 1895 Hardy's final novel, the great tale of JudetheObscure, sent shock waves of indignationrolling across VictorianEngland. Hardy haddared to write frankly about sexuality andtoindict the institutions of marriage, education,and religion. Buthe had, in fact, created a deeplymoral work. The stonemason JudeFawley is adreamer; his is a tragedy of unfulfilled aims.With histantalizing cousin Sue Bridehead, thelast and most extraordinary ofHardy's heroines,Jude takes on the world--and discovers,tragically,its brutal indifference.The most powerful expression ofHardy's philosophy,and a profound exploration of man'sessentialloneliness, Jude the Obscure is a great and beautifulbook."His style touches sublimity." --T. S. Eliot
In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacherGeorge Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone withhis teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his songrow and change as he himself begins to lost touch with his life.Interwoven with the myth of Chiron, the noblest centaur, and hisown relationship to Prometheus, The Centaur one of John Updike'smost brilliant and unusual novels.
In Theatre, W. Somerset Maugham–the author of the classicnovels Of Human Bondage and Up at the Villa–introduces us to JuliaLambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks havestood by her forty-six years. She is one of the greatest actressesEngland–so good, in fact, that perhaps she never stopsacting. It seems that noting can ruffle her satin feathers, until a quietstranger who challenges Julia's very sense of self. As a result,she will endure rejection for the first time, her capacity as amother will be affronted, and her ability to put on whatever faceshe desired for her public will prove limited. In Theatre, Maughamsubtly exposes the tensions and triumphs that occur when acting andreality blend together, and–for Julia–ultimately reverse.
The masterpiece of Joseph Conrad's later years, theautobiographical short novel "The Shadow-Line "depicts a young manat a crossroads in his life, facing a desperate crisis that marksthe "shadow-line" between youth and maturity. This brief butintense story is a dramatically fictionalized account of Conrad'sfirst command as a young sea captain trapped aboard a becalmed,fever-wracked, and seemingly haunted ship. With no wind in sightand his crew disabled by malaria, the narrator discovers that themedicine necessary to save the sick men is missing and its absencehas been deliberately concealed. Meanwhile, his increasinglyfrightened first mate is convinced that the malignant ghost of theprevious captain has cursed them. Suspenseful, atmospheric, anddeceptively simple, Conrad's tale of the sea reflects the complexthemes of his most famous novels, "Lord Jim "and "Heart ofDarkness. "
Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleepswith a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end thisbrutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter,Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, richesand wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes andhunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of thevoyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba's outwitting a band of fortythieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequenceof stories will last 1,001 nights.
On the 150th anniversary of its publication, a new edition ofthe nature classic First published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau'sgroundbreaking book has influenced generations of readers andcontinues to inspire and inform anyone with an open mind and a loveof nature. With Bill McKibben providing a newly revisedIntroduction and helpful annotations that place Thoreau firmly inhis role as cultural and spiritual seer, this beautiful edition ofWalden for the new millennium is more accessible and relevant thanever. " Thoreau] says so many pithy and brilliant things, andoffers so many piquant, and, we may add, so many just, comments onsociety as it is, that this book is well worth the reading, bothfor its actual contents and its suggestive capacity." --A. P.Peabody, North American Review, 1854 " Walden] still seems to methe best youth's companion yet written by an American, for itcarries a solemn warning against the loss of one's valuables, itadvances a good argument for traveling light and trying newadventures,
This all-new Signet Classic contains many of T.S. Eliot's mostimportant early peoms, leading to perhaps his greatest masterpiece,The Waste Land, which has long been regarded as one of thefundamental texts of modernism. By combining poetic elements frommany diverse sources with bits of popular culture and common speechlinked in a fragmented narrative, Eliot recreated the chaos anddisillusionment of Europe in the aftermath of WWI. * The Waste Land is a modernist literary masterpiece. * Contains a number of early poems, including Spleen, The Deathof St. Narcissus, The Love Song of J. Prufrock, Preludes,Gerontion, The Hippopotmaus, and Sweeny Among theNightingales. * T.S Eliot is the winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature,and is one of America's greatest poets. * Edited and with an Introduction by Helen Vendler, a foremostscholar of moderism at Harvard University who writes regularly forthe New Yorker and The New Republic. * Vendler is also the author of books on other
"One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation, athrenody of hope deceived and deferred but never extinguished;a play suffused with tenderness for the whole humanperplexity; with phrases that come like a sharp stab ofbeauty and pain."
After traveling the world to exotic lands, Alexandra, Jane,and Sukie–now widowed but still witches–return to the Rhode Islandseaside t own of Eastwick, “the scene of their primes,” site oftheir enchanted mischief more than three decades ago. DiabolicalDarryl Van Horne is gone, and what was once a center of license andliberation is now a “haven of wholesomeness” populated by hockeymoms and househusbands acting out against the old ways of their ownabsent, experimenting parents. With spirits still willing but fleshweaker, the three women must confront a powerful new counterspellof conformity. In this wicked and wonderful novel, John Updike isat his very best–a legendary master of literary magic up to his olddelightful tricks.
