繁体
作者 : 曼努埃尔·普伊格
The well-known Kiss of the Spider Woman, a sharply provocative tale of love, victimization, and fantasy, and of the friendship that develops between two strikingly different men imprisoned together in a Latin American jail; This is convincing proof that Manual Puig was one of our most talented writers - no matter what the medium. Puig is the author of seven novels, translated into fourteen languages.
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作者 : 考麦克·麦卡锡
No Country for Old Men is a 2005 novel by American author Cormac McCarthy. Set along the United States–Mexico border in 1980, the story concerns an illicit drug deal gone wrong in a remote desert location. The title comes from the poem Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats. In 2007 a film adaptation was released, winning four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
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作者 : 安吉拉·卡特
Burning Your Boats (Short Stories Collection)，本书完整收录安洁拉·卡特创作生涯中的短篇小说。其中包括四册曾独立出版之作品：《烟火》，《染血之室》，《黑色维纳斯》， 《美国鬼魂与旧世界奇观》），另外还收录卡特从未出版单行本之六篇遗珠小说。著名小说家鲁西迪特别作序推荐。 本书四十二篇精彩小说可以看到作者创作上的企图心，题材从童话故事到真人真事皆有，原发表场所从一般流行杂志到学术倾向的伦敦书评，显示卡特不断跨越各种书写，社会分界，像是个游走江湖的说书人，吸引各种社会阶层驻足聆听。 其中《染血之室》，为卡特最著名的代表作，她改写《蓝胡子》、《穿靴猫》、《小红帽》等著名故事，大幅翻转故事的指涉意义。其中《与狼为伴》一篇曾改编成电影。
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作者 : 约翰·弥尔顿
Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his band of rebel angels plot their revenge against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, motivated by all too human temptations, but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love.Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition. For nearly 350 years it has held generation upon generation of scholars, students and readers in rapt attention and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western culture.
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作者 : 唐纳德·巴塞尔姆
Experimentation with the absurd, both in theme and technique, is by no means a totally new development in literature, especially for those readers familiar with the works of Camus, Kafka, Beckett, Genêt, and Robbe-Grillet. Like these writers, Mr. Barthelme satirizes and mimics most of the clichés of our popular culture, and, through the predicaments of his characters, makes the reader ask Why? Yet these predicaments, although bizarre, inane, and usually surrealistic, do not necessarily contain the morose connotations of most writers of the absurd. For example, in one tale the narrator is thirty-five years old, six feet tall, with the logic and reasoning of an adult. He is in the sixth grade, where Miss Mandible, his teacher, is frustrated in her desires to have an affair with him because, officially, he is a child!These imaginative stories of dark humor, some of which have appeared in The New Yorker, are to be interpreted on many levels, and offer refreshing and thoroughly exciting reading.
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作者 : 赫尔曼·黑塞
《荒原狼》描写的是中年艺术家的精神危机。小说主人公哈里·哈勒尔自称荒原狼，一只迷了路来到我们城里，来到家畜群中的荒原狼。哈勒尔年轻时曾想有所作为，做一番高尚而有永恒价值的事业，他富有正义感，具有人道主义思想。但是在现实生活中，他的理想破灭了；他反对互相残杀的战争，反对狭隘的民族沙文主义和军国主义，却招来一片诽谤与谩骂，他到处看到庸俗鄙陋之辈，追名逐利之徒，各党各派为私利而倾轧。他深感时代与世界、金钱与权力总是属于平庸而渺小的人，真正的人却一无所有。社会上道德沦丧、文化堕落，什么东西都发出一股腐朽的臭味。荒原狼与这个社会格格不入，在他看来，周围的一切都只不过是一场猴戏。他感到非常痛苦孤独，他烦躁不安，无家可归，啊，在我们的世界……要找到神灵的痕迹是多么困难啊！在这个世界，我没有一丝快乐，在这样的世界，我怎能不做一只荒原狼，一个潦倒的隐世者。
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Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts
作者 : 唐纳德·巴塞尔姆
唐纳德·巴塞尔姆Donald Barthelme（1931年4月7日—1989年7月23日）是美国后现代主义小说家，代表作是《白雪公主》。他一生写了大量的短篇小说，并曾从事新闻记者、杂志编辑等工作，并曾在纽约城市大学任教。虽然以短篇小说文明，巴塞尔姆一生中亦著有四部中长篇小说：《白雪公主》（Snow White），《死去的父亲》（The Dead Father），《天堂》（Paradise）以及 The King。他的一百多篇短篇收集在 《Come Back, Dr. Caligari》、 《Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts》《City Life》和《Sadness》等书中。另外，它的大部分作品汇集在了《故事六十篇》（Sixty Stories）和《故事四十篇》（Forty Stories）之中。巴塞尔姆还著有一些非小说书籍，如：《Guilty Pleasures》、《Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews of Donald Barthelme》。并和女儿一道写了儿童文学作品《The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine》，并因此在1972年获得美国国家图书奖。巴塞尔姆的短篇小说作品通常只重视偶然和片断，而并传统、完整的叙述并不多见。一些作品背离了小说传统表现方式，甚至在一些作品里采用大量非文字的表达方式例如插入让读者难以捉摸的图片或者单调的色块。人们对他的作品有褒有贬。褒者认为巴塞尔姆的作品思维方式奇特、观点独到，贬者认为他的作品毫无意义不能理解。他也是美国最富有影响力的后现代主义作家之一。
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作者 : 尼克·霍恩比
在元旦新年的守岁夜，伦敦有四个失意绝望的人：因为跟一个15岁少女上床而声败名裂的电视名人马丁；除了照顾自己严重残疾的成年儿子没有自己生活的中年妇女莫莲；因为姐姐几年前神秘失踪而一直走不出心理阴影的少女杰丝；和乐队解散、女友分手的美国摇滚歌手JJ。他们都想到著名的礼帽大厦楼顶跳楼自杀，四人在楼顶不期而遇。他们一起度过了一个晚上，讲述各自不幸的遭遇，第二天一早各自回家，但从此形成了一个奇怪的四人小团体，开始发生各种各样有趣的事情，比如他们试图挽救马丁的婚姻，结果一团糟；他们组成读书会，专门讨论自杀的作家们，他们还计划不周地匆匆去金丝雀群岛旅行…… 这是英国当红作家尼克·霍恩比第四部长篇小说，他的小说风格充满喜剧色彩而给人以温暖。在这部首印达17万册的新作中，他娴熟地驾驭自杀这样沉重的话题，时不时令读者发出会心一笑。小说刚刚在美国上市就占据《纽约时报》小说排行榜第四名，其受欢迎程度可见一斑。新年前夜，四个生活失意的陌生人在伦敦著名的自杀圣地顶层大厦上不期而遇。马丁是个名誉臭了大街的电视节目主持人，JJ是个失败的音乐人，中年妇女莫琳除了一个植物人儿子之外一无所有，而洁丝是个四处碰壁的青春期叛逆少女。经过一个荒唐的夜晚，四人组成所谓的自杀俱乐部，试图互相帮助，走出抑郁的低谷。新的烦恼与笑料由此产生……
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作者 : 戴安娜·赛特菲尔德
从小在父亲的古旧书店帮忙的姑娘玛格丽特，爱好读经典小说和传记。一天，她突然收到著名女作家维达·温特的来信。温特性格古怪而低调，常常编造自己的各种离奇故事糊弄记者，但谁也不知道她的真正来历。可她居然写信邀请默默无闻的玛格丽特来为她写传。出于好奇，同样深居简出的玛格丽特来到偏僻的温特家。如温特所述，她的母亲伊莎贝拉美丽任性，父亲和哥哥完全听命于她，伊莎贝拉生下的一对双胞胎女儿却行为怪异。玛格丽特对女作家的故事既着迷，又困惑。半信半疑中，她开始调查这个家族，依照自己的调查结果将温特讲述的家族故事拼接起来。然而，寻找真相的过程令人胆战心惊，也彻底改变了玛格丽特自己的命运……
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The Poetry of Federico García Lorca
作者 : 加西亚·洛尔迦
费德里科·加西亚·洛尔迦（federico garcia lorca,1989-1936）是20世纪最伟大的西班牙诗人、27年一代的代表人物。这位安达卢西亚之子把他的诗同西班牙民间歌谣创造性地结合起来，创造出了一种全新的诗体：节奏优美哀婉，形式多样，词句形象，想象丰富，民间色彩浓郁，易于吟唱，同时又显示出超凡的诗艺。近70年来，他的诗歌作品对世界诗坛产生了巨大影响，难怪美国著名诗人勃莱谈到他的作品时说：洛尔迦的诗歌佳作是人类智力的楷模。
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The Lion, the Witch and the War
作者 : C·S·刘易斯
Narnia . . . a land frozen in eternal winter . . . a country waiting to be set free . . . Four adventurers step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narniaa land enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change . . . and a great sacrifice.
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作者 : 约翰·弥尔顿
Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his band of rebel angels plot their revenge against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, motivated by all too human temptations, but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love.Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition. For nearly 350 years it has held generation upon generation of scholars, students and readers in rapt attention and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western culture.
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作者 : 谭恩美
Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's saying the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. Forty years later the stories and history continue.With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.
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作者 : 约翰·弥尔顿
Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his band of rebel angels plot their revenge against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, motivated by all too human temptations, but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love.Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition. For nearly 350 years it has held generation upon generation of scholars, students and readers in rapt attention and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western culture.
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作者 : 赫尔曼·黑塞
《纳尔齐斯与歌尔德蒙》把故事和人物安排在中世纪：自幼失去母亲的修道院学生歌尔德蒙立志侍奉上帝，他的老师和朋友纳尔齐斯却劝说他放弃苦修和戒条的束缚，回归母亲赋予他的本性之中，成为灵感充沛的人。于是歌尔德蒙听从了他的劝告，开始流浪的生涯。自从爱欲被一位吉卜赛女郎所唤醒，歌尔德蒙的身体和灵魂就经历了无数次爱情与背叛，争夺与死亡，浸透了红尘的气味，也烙下了许多细微、优美而沧桑的感触。直到有一天，他被一座圣母像的美所震撼，激起了他创造的欲望。于是歌尔德蒙师从雕刻家，沉潜到雕塑艺术中。历经千回百折，他又回到自己的挚友和师长纳尔齐斯的身边，两人分别以灵感和理性启发对方，终于使歌尔德蒙掌握了化瞬间为永恒的艺术法则，雕出了以他的恋人丽迪亚为原型的完美塑像圣母玛利亚。在艺术创造的过程中，不羁的天性仍然驱使他远离静态的生活，去追逐不道德的艳遇，去放逐自己的躯体，直到它衰老、死亡，直到它已穷尽世间的所有奇遇，直到自己不再渴求任何幸福。歌尔德蒙死在理性的兄长纳尔齐斯身旁，死在对母亲和死亡的大彻大悟中，虽然他没有完成对夏娃母亲的雕塑，但是他没有任何遗憾。《纳尔齐斯与歌尔德蒙》是一部奇特的小说，具有多重释义的可能：它探讨了理性人生与感性人生之间的复杂关系；呼唤从父性文化向母性文化传统的回归；探求人性内部的和谐；但从总体上来看，它是一部在哲学层次上探讨生命永恒的意义的小说。an ascetic monk; a rigorous intellectual remains in the monastery to become an abbot; the epitome of the masculine, analytical mind. GOLDMUND romantic, dreamy, flaxen-haired boy; celebrates the lush, lyrical, rapturous, sensuous quality of women; leaves the monastery to find his true nature; he epitomizes the feminine mind. NARCISSUS AND GOLDMUND two antithetical natures, the best of friends, who understand and assist each other.
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