“Forty rooms” is a conceit: it proposes that a modern woman will inhabit forty rooms in her lifetime. They form her biography, from childhood to death. For our protagonist, the much-loved child of a late marriage, the first rooms she is aware of as she nears the age of five are those that make up her family’s Moscow apartment. We follow this child as she reaches adolescence, le...(展开全部)

“Forty rooms” is a conceit: it proposes that a modern woman will inhabit forty rooms in her lifetime. They form her biography, from childhood to death. For our protagonist, the much-loved child of a late marriage, the first rooms she is aware of as she nears the age of five are those that make up her family’s Moscow apartment. We follow this child as she reaches adolescence, le...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Ranging from photo-based pictures to gestural abstraction, Gerhard Richter's diverse body of work calls into question many widely held attitudes about the inherent importance of stylistic consistency, the "natural" evolution of individual artistic sensibility, the spontaneous component of creativity, and the relationship of technological means and mass media imagery to traditio...(展开全部)

"SUM" is a dazzling exploration of funny and unexpected afterlives that have never been considered-each presented as a vignette that offers us a stunning lens through which to see ourselves here and now. In one afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and is unaware of your existence. In another, your creators are a species of dim-witted creatures who built us t...(展开全部)

At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives—each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In another version, you work as a background character in other people’s dreams. ...(展开全部)

In the 40 essays that constitute this collection, Guy Davenport, one of America's major literary critics, elucidates a range of literary history, encompassing literature, art, philosophy and music, from the ancients to the grand old men of modernism.

◎全書搭配插畫家伊卡魯斯精心繪製的四十種死後生活面貌 ◎全書由知名設計家王志弘親手操刀設計 ◎《死後四十種生活》是一本適合隨身攜帶、隨時閱讀的小說 了解生命祕密的終極奇想── 四十種不可思議的死後世界 字宙間另一層生命的存在意義，即在消失後的生命依然擁有無限的可能性！ 在死後世界中，上帝如微生物般大小，所以無法察覺我們的存在。在另一種死後世界中，造物者是愚蠢的生物，祂創造人類是為了弄清楚自己能力不及之處。或者上帝如同《科學怪人》裡的法蘭克斯坦，製作出祂心馳神往的巔峰之作後，卻只想逃離其所創造的東西。又或者，在死後世界裡，上帝根本不存在。 我們到了死後世界，所有的事情會再重新發生，只是倒退著進行；或許順序全數重組，相同的事情聚集在一起，一次做個夠；或者我們可以同時享受所有可能，平行過著多重的生活；或者在死後世界裡，我們可以選擇下輩子要投胎轉化的物種。 ...(展开全部)

A spirited collection of essays by cutting-edge neuroscientists that irreverently explores the quirky and counterintuitive aspects of brain function Neuroscientist David J. Linden approached leading brain researchers and asked each the same question: “What idea about brain function would you most like to explain to the world?” Their responses make up this one‑of‑a‑kind collecti...(展开全部)