Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, this is Nabokov's 'other' great love story; with some of Lolita's perversity and much more playfulness. Romance follows Ada and Van from their first childhood meeting through eight years of rapture, in a book which is regarded by many to be Nabokov's richest and most ambitious.

Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor i...(展开全部)

Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, this is Nabokov's 'other' great love story; with some of Lolita's perversity and much more playfulness. Romance follows Ada and Van from their first childhood meeting through eight years of rapture, in a book which is regarded by many to be Nabokov's richest and most ambitious.

Ardor, inspiration, the soul, the sublime: Such terms have long since fallen from favor among critics and artists alike. In his new collection of essays, Adam Zagajewski continues his efforts to reclaim for art not just the terms but the scanted spiritual dimension of modern human existence that they stake out. Bringing gravity and grace to his meditations on art, society, and ...(展开全部)

亚当·扎加耶夫斯基（Adam Zagajewski），波兰极具国际影响的诗人、小说家、散文家。一九四五年生于利沃夫（今属乌克兰），出生后即随全家迁居格维里策。二十世纪六十年代成名，是新浪潮派诗歌的代表人物。一九八二年移居巴黎。二〇〇二年返回波兰，居住在克拉科夫。他的主要作品有《公报》《肉铺》《画布》《炽烈的土地》《欲望》、《尝试赞美这残缺的世界》等,已被翻译成欧洲多种语言出版。他曾获得多项国内、国际权威大奖，包括二〇〇四年获得由美国《今日世界文学》颁发的诺斯达特文学奖且多次获诺贝尔文学奖提名。

Masterful in its simplicity, Chronicle in Stone is a touching coming-of-age story and a testament to the perseverance of the human spirit. Surrounded by the magic of beautiful women and literature, a boy must endure the deprivations of war as he suffers the hardships of growing up. His sleepy country has just thrown off centuries of tyranny, but new waves of domination inunda...(展开全部)

Masterful in its simplicity, Chronicle in Stone is a touching coming-of-age story and a testament to the perseverance of the human spirit. Surrounded by the magic of beautiful women and literature, a boy must endure the deprivations of war as he suffers the hardships of growing up. His sleepy country has just thrown off centuries of tyranny, but new waves of do...(展开全部)

Masterful in its simplicity, Chronicle in Stone is a touching coming-of-age story and a testament to the perseverance of the human spirit. Surrounded by the magic of beautiful women and literature, a boy must endure the deprivations of war as he suffers the hardships of growing up. His sleepy country has just thrown off centuries of tyranny, but new waves of domination inunda...(展开全部)

Masterful in its simplicity, Chronicle in Stone is a touching coming-of-age story and a testament to the perseverance of the human spirit. Surrounded by the magic of beautiful women and literature, a boy must endure the deprivations of war as he suffers the hardships of growing up. His sleepy country has just thrown off centuries of tyranny, but new waves of do...(展开全部)

理查德·奥弗里（Richard Overy，1947—），英国皇家历史学会会士（Fellow of the Royal Historical Society），英国人文社会科学院院士（Fellow of the British Academy）。20世纪英国首屈一指的史学家，二战史领域的知名权威。因历史写作方面的杰出成就，曾荣获2004年沃夫森历史奖（Wolfson History Prize）。先后任教于剑桥大学、伦敦大学国王学院，目前是英国埃克塞特大学（University of Exeter）的历史学教授。