爱德华·D·霍克 在当代欧美侦探小说文坛有那么一位甘心坚守短篇阵营的作家，辛勤耕耘几 十年之后也成为了一代大师。这便是目前创作逾千篇短篇侦探小说的爱德华·D· 霍克。 爱德华·D·霍克是二战之后最重要的短篇侦探小说作家。1973开始《埃勒里 ·奎因神秘杂志》每期都刊登他的一篇小说，三十多年未曾间断。在短篇小说的 领域里，霍克是多面手，尝试过各种形式和方法，但是大部分小说都强调公平的 线索和推理。许多情节元素是创新的，比如在推理中融合科幻小说和幻想小说元 素，他还坚持黄金时代作家的理念，认为谜团是小说的核心。 爱德华·D·霍克谈及为何对短篇小说情有独钟是因为他喜欢新奇的想法。“ 我可以一两周就写出一篇短篇小说，”他说，“长篇往往要花费我两三个月。我 很少写长篇，我觉得自己会半途而废，总想到下一个点子。”在他超过1000篇的 短篇作品中，塑造了二十多位系...(展开全部)

The experience of the impossible churns up in our epoch whenever a collective dream turns to trauma: politically, sexually, economically, and with a certain ultimacy, ecologically. Out of an ancient theological lineage, the figure of the cloud comes to convey possibility in the face of the impossible. An old mystical nonknowing of God now hosts a current knowledge of uncertaint...(展开全部)

“…a landmark anthology, which establishes that the crafting of brilliant short impossible crime fiction is not an exclusively Anglo-American endeavor.” Publishers Weekly (Starred review) Here is a groundbreaking collection of 26 impossible crime stories from over 20 countries, demonstrating the global reach of this most fiendishly ingenious tale. Several stories appear here for...(展开全部)

Book Description Master of the Impossible! Joseph Commings (1914-1992) created one of the greatest investigators of locked rooms, impossible disappearances and other "miracle crimes" – the gargantuan, harrumphing Senator Brooks U. Banner. During his long career (Banner first appeared in the pulps in 1947), he investigated such crimes as murder at a séance where everyone is h...(展开全部)

Book Description Master of the Impossible! Joseph Commings (1914-1992) created one of the greatest investigators of locked rooms, impossible disappearances and other "miracle crimes" – the gargantuan, harrumphing Senator Brooks U. Banner. During his long career (Banner first appeared in the pulps in 1947), he investigated such crimes as murder at a séance where everyone is h...(展开全部)

作者序言 有時候要回想起一個系列主角的誕生並不容易，可是就山姆‧霍桑醫生來說，我對當時的情形卻記得很清楚。那是在一九七四年的元月，我剛得到一份新的月曆來掛在我打字機旁邊。每個月的那一張都有一幅畫著過去鄉間生活的水彩畫，正月的那張畫裡是冬天的一座屋橋。整個一月份，我都看著那張畫，不久就開始想到如果說有輛馬車從橋的這頭進去，卻沒有從另外那頭出來，不知會怎麼樣。接下來想了一兩天之後，想出了一個解決方法和故事大綱，只差一個偵探。因為這個故事的背景必須設在過去，所以我需要一個新的偵探，一個新的系列主角。於是我決定用一個鄉下醫生，就叫山姆霍桑。 從一開始，我就計畫山姆霍桑系列盡量要牽涉到密室和其他不可能的犯罪行為。雖然我那麼多系列的偵探差不多全都碰過一兩回不可能的犯罪，可是我覺得在這一類題材裡，我寫得最好的還都在山姆霍桑這個系列裡。再看看這最初的幾篇作品，我注意...(展开全部)

The ongoing relevance of Belgian painter Rene Magritte may lie in the semiotic character of his work and its ability to create chasms between the world, its surfaces and the signs we use to occupy it. Magritte's paintings offer a space for the viewer to contemplate the emptiness of signs and to locate that emptiness in a world we recognize--indeed, the artist relies on the prop...(展开全部)

We need to understand the impossible. Francesco Berto and Mark Jago start by considering what the concepts of meaning, information, knowledge, belief, fiction, conditionality, and counterfactual supposition have in common. They are all concepts which divide the world up more finely than logic does. Logically equivalent sentences may carry different meanings and information and ...(展开全部)