From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short-story collections of our time. Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in these breathtaking tales of loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. Each of the stunning portraits in Close Range ...(展开全部)

罗伯特·阿尔特（Roberto Arlt，1900—1942)，出身于阿根廷普鲁士移民家庭，成长于城市拥挤的廉租房。16岁离开家后，他当过书店职员、铁匠学徒、油漆工、焊工等，直至于布宜诺斯艾利斯《世界报》任职。作为一位记者，阿尔特描绘了布市丰富而生动的生活；作为一位发明家，他获得了防止女性丝袜滑落的专利。1942年，阿尔特因病去世，有《七个疯子》《喷火器》《愤怒的玩偶》《魔幻之爱》等小说和戏剧作品数部传世。 - 译者简介： 欧阳石晓，成都人，新加坡南洋理工大学工程系毕业，现居西班牙马德里。精通英语、西语，阿拉伯语研习中。译有胡安•加夫列尔•巴斯克斯《名誉》等。

A weird wonder of Argentine and modern literature, a crucial work for Julio Cortázar (“If there’s one person in my country I feel close to, it’s Roberto Arlt”), The Seven Madmen begins when its hapless and hopeless hero, Erdosain, is dismissed from his job as a bill collector for embezzlement. Then his wife leaves him and things only go downhill after that. Erdosain wanders the...(展开全部)

A newborn’s absent face appears on the back of someone else’s head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he’s after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia, no belief, no claim to objectivity, is immune to the distortions of human perce...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 A series of fascinating Chinese stories, strong in humor and rich in Chinese wisdom, in which the author has caught admirably the spirit of Chinese life and thought.

在线阅读本书 A series of fascinating Chinese stories, strong in humor and rich in Chinese wisdom, in which the author has caught admirably the spirit of Chinese life and thought.

The book that has captivated millions of Chinese readers, translated into English for the very first time. 'Hypnotic . . . A record of one person's fierce refusal to follow a path laid down for her by the rest of the world' Tash Aw, Paris Review Books of the Year. Sanmao: author, adventurer, pioneer. Born in China in 1943, she moved from Chongqing to Taiwan, Spain to Germany, t...(展开全部)

"That one was the most beautiful machine I had ever laid eyes on." In a world where humans are the minority and androids have created their own civilization, a wandering storyteller meets the beautiful android Ibis. She tells him seven stories of human/android interaction in order to reveal the secret behind humanity's fall. The stories that Ibis speaks are of the "seven novels...(展开全部)

Tell me three good night stories, please, please, please, says Little Bear. Three!? says her mother. Yes--I said please three times! First, Little Bear hears the story of the Night Guardian, who lives in the woods and makes sure all animals go to bed. But who tells the Night Guardian when it's bedtime? The second story is about the brave girl Zhara who seeks the forest's most d...(展开全部)

Close reading—making an argument based in close attention to a text—is the foundation of literary studies. This book offers a guide to close reading, treating it as a skill that can be taught and practiced. It first explains what close reading is, what it does, and how it has been used across theoretical schools ranging from affect studies to Black studies to queer theory to Ma...(展开全部)