A Place in the Country is W. G. Sebald’s meditation on the six artists and writers who shaped his creative mind—and the last of this great writer’s major works to be translated into English. This extraordinary collection of interlinked essays about place, memory, and creativity captures the inner worlds of five authors and one painter. In his masterly and mysterious style—part...(展开全部)

作者 [德]温弗里德·塞巴尔德，德国作家、学者，1944年出生于德国，自1970年起定居英国，在东英吉利大学执教。2001年因车祸去世。曾获德国柏林文学奖、不莱梅文学奖、海因里希·伯尔文学奖、海涅文学奖等，著有《奥斯特利茨》《土星之环》《眩晕》《移民》《自然之后：一部元素诗》《未曾叙说》。 译者 闵志荣，南京大学德语语言文学专业硕士和哥廷根大学跨文化日耳曼学专业硕士，现任江苏理工学院外国语学院德语系系主任，译有《土星之环》《德意志星球》等书。

This text examines the relationship between Plato's conception of the nature of the universe, and his moral and political thought. Cropsey interprets seven of Plato's dialogues - "Theaetetus", "Euthyphro", "Sophist", "Statesman", "Apology", "Crito" and "Phaedo" - in light of their dramatic consecutiveness and thus as a conceptual and dramatic whole. The cosmos depicted by Plato...(展开全部)

This text examines the relationship between Plato's conception of the nature of the universe, and his moral and political thought. Cropsey interprets seven of Plato's dialogues - "Theaetetus", "Euthyphro", "Sophist", "Statesman", "Apology", "Crito" and "Phaedo" - in light of their dramatic consecutiveness and thus as a conceptual and dramatic whole. The cosmos depicted by Plato...(展开全部)

托马斯·本德(Thomas Bender)，全球史研究的主要倡导者，美国知名历史学家，纽约大学(NYU)校席教授，纽约大学国际高等研究中心负责人，研究涉及文化史、思想史、城市史等领域，是美国当代富有影响的历史学家之一。 除本书外，著有《纽约智识》(New York Intellect，1987)、《未完成的城市》(The Unfinished City，2002)、《在全球化时代反思美国史》(Rethinking American History in a Global Age，2002)等。曾荣获弗雷德里克·杰克逊·特纳奖(Frederick Jackson Turner Prize)，盖蒂、洛克菲勒和古根海姆基金会奖。

托马斯·本德(Thomas Bender)，全球史研究的主要倡导者，美国知名历史学家，纽约大学(NYU)校席教授，纽约大学国际高等研究中心负责人，研究涉及文化史、思想史、城市史等领域，是美国当代富有影响的历史学家之一。 除本书外，著有《纽约智识》(New York Intellect，1987)、《未完成的城市》(The Unfinished City，2002)、《在全球化时代反思美国史》(Rethinking American History in a Global Age，2002)等。曾荣获弗雷德里克·杰克逊·特纳奖(Frederick Jackson Turner Prize)，盖蒂、洛克菲勒和古根海姆基金会奖。

My friend is missing. When he disappeared, he’d been working on a magazine about the paranormal―his first real job as an editor. With almost no budget, he’d resorted to digging through back issues and unused research material, looking for inspiration. As he did, a terrifying truth began to emerge about a certain place in the Kinki region. I have collected the relevant articles,...(展开全部)

In his long-awaited, vastly innovative new novel, Naipaul, "one of literature's great travelers" (Los Angles Times), spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism. "Dickensian . . . a brilliant new prism through which to view (Naipaul's) life and work."--New York Times.

In his long-awaited, vastly innovative new novel, Naipaul, "one of literature's great travelers" (Los Angles Times), spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism. "Dickensian . . . a brilliant new prism through which to view (Naipaul's) life and work."--New York Times.