The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after "Buddenbrooks" had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, "Death in Venice" tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual ...(展开全部)

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after "Buddenbrooks" had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, "Death in Venice" tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual ...(展开全部)

亚历山德罗·马尔佐·马尼奥，记者兼全职作家。 他出生于威尼斯，毕业于威尼斯大学的威尼斯历史系，十年来，他担任《Il Diario》的外事总编，每周都会参加意大利国家电视台重要的晨间节目。他出版了十七部著作，包括《十年战争》《南斯拉夫》《爱之威尼斯：11个著名的威尼斯故事组成的爱之颂歌》《雅典1687：威尼斯，土耳其人和那不勒斯的毁灭》等。

A New York Times Notable Book A Best Book of the Year: The Economist, The New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Slate.com, and Time In Venice, at the Biennale,a jaded, bellini-swigging journalist named Jeff Atmanmeets a beautiful woman and they embark on a passionate affair. In Varanasi, an unnamed journalist (who may or may not be Jeff) joins thousands of pilgrims on...(展开全部)

Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent profile, The New York Times Magazine paid tribute to her amazing ability to combine the classical and the modern, the mundane and the surreal, in a body of work that is sure to endure. In Men in the Off Hours , Carson offers further proof of her tantalizing gifts. Reinventi...(展开全部)

For courses in Renaissance Art. Through close examination of Renaissance paintings, drawings, book illustrations, and other art works, Patricia Fortini Brown brings fourteenth and fifteenth century Venice alive. She explores the role of the guilds and the nobility, the unique island setting, the environment of the church and the private home, the political rivalries with other...(展开全部)

For courses in Renaissance Art. Through close examination of Renaissance paintings, drawings, book illustrations, and other art works, Patricia Fortini Brown brings fourteenth and fifteenth century Venice alive. She explores the role of the guilds and the nobility, the unique island setting, the environment of the church and the private home, the political rivalries with other...(展开全部)

A wildly original novel of erotic fulfillment and spiritual yearning. Every two years the international art world descends on Venice for the opening of the Biennale. Among them is Jeff Atman-a jaded and dissolute journalist-whose dedication to the cause of Bellini-fuelled partygoing is only intermittently disturbed by the obligation to file a story. When he meets the spellbindi...(展开全部)

西蒙娜•薇依(Simone Weil,1909-1943)，20世纪法国哲学家、社会活动家、神秘主义思想大师。薇依一生写了一本又一本的笔记，内容涉及哲学、宗教、历史、政治……西蒙娜拥有特立独行，自甘苦行、永远站在穷苦人民一边的“圣女”人格和感人生平，她的思想充满智慧。 吴雅凌，上海社科院宗教研究所副研究员，法国巴黎第三大学比较文学博士，目前从事比较古典学研究，著译有《神谱笺释》（2010年）、《劳作与时日笺释》（2014年）、《柏拉图对话中的神》（2012年）、《黑暗中的女人：作为古典肃剧英雄的女人类型》（2016年）等。