A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR National book Critics Circle Award Finalist "Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today."--Michael Ondaatje "This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so marvelously disturbing." --Alice Munro The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning...(展开全部)

安妮•卡森（Anne Carson） 1950年生于多伦多，童年随着家人迁居，在安大略省多个小城生活过。她在多伦多大学学习古典学，在苏格兰受教于肯尼斯•多福，博士期间她回到多伦多大学研读诗人萨福，研究所得后来被她整理出版为《爱欲的苦甜》。 卡森深受哈罗德•布鲁姆推崇，称其为“在世诸天才之一”，是“智慧作家”，可与艾米丽•勃朗特和艾米丽•狄金森相提并论。 她是目前古典功底最为深厚的一位诗人。同时她也是形式上的创新派，经常用当代的方式，创新的形式来重新阐释古典——以图像、研究和比较切入诗歌写作，所出版的作品几乎每一本都将多种体裁杂糅在一起，如诗歌、论文、翻译等。 目前卡森在美国多所大学教授古典学和比较文学，是纽约大学的驻校诗人。她还活跃在艺术舞台和歌剧剧坛上。

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR National book Critics Circle Award Finalist "Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today."--Michael Ondaatje "This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so marvelously disturbing." --Alice Munro The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning...(展开全部)

安妮•卡森（Anne Carson） 1950年生于多伦多，童年随着家人迁居，在安大略省多个小城生活过。她在多伦多大学学习古典学，在苏格兰受教于肯尼斯•多福，博士期间她回到多伦多大学研读诗人萨福，研究所得后来被她整理出版为《爱欲的苦甜》。 卡森深受哈罗德•布鲁姆推崇，称其为“在世诸天才之一”，是“智慧作家”，可与艾米丽•勃朗特和艾米丽•狄金森相提并论。 她是目前古典功底最为深厚的一位诗人。同时她也是形式上的创新派，经常用当代的方式，创新的形式来重新阐释古典——以图像、研究和比较切入诗歌写作，所出版的作品几乎每一本都将多种体裁杂糅在一起，如诗歌、论文、翻译等。 目前卡森在美国多所大学教授古典学和比较文学，是纽约大学的驻校诗人。她还活跃在艺术舞台和歌剧剧坛上。

The stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables, which abound in nested narratives and wild paradoxes. This new collection of eleven mind-bending and spellbinding tales includes some of Krzhizhanovsky’s most dazzling conceits: a provincial journalist who moves to Moscow finds his existence consumed by the autobiography o...(展开全部)

To tie in with the paperback publication of volume II of Blanche Wiesen Cook's acclaimed biography of Eleanor Roosevelt "Mrs. Roosevelt's autobiography is above all the portrait of a person. The history it gives is history as she has seen it-not in the round but directly, with her clear and candid eye. Since, however, she has seen so much and from so central a point of vision...(展开全部)

This is the most important book about the nature of philosophy and of the human soul published this year. In making the condition for its own possibility its deepest concern, philosophy is necessarily about itself-it is autobiographical. The first part of The Autobiography of Philosophy interprets Heidegger's Being and Time, Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals, Aristotle's M...(展开全部)

"I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison." At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a pot...(展开全部)

The bestselling memoir by a woman who survived terminal illness only to confront the tragedy of being deemed unacceptable in a world that worships physical beauty.

露西·格雷利（Lucy Grealy，1963—2002），出生于爱尔兰，4岁时随家人迁居美国纽约。是一位出色的作家兼诗人，曾获得多个文学奖项，包括美国诗人学会奖（Academy of American Poets Prize）、《泰晤士报文学增刊》诗歌奖（TLS Poetry Prize），以及美国第11届怀丁作家奖（Whiting Award）。另著有《日常托词》（Everyday Alibis）、《电视上所见》（As Seen on TV）等。