David Lodge's novels have earned comparisons to those of John Updike and Philip Roth and established him as "a cult figure on both sides of the Atlantic" ("The New York Times"). "Thinks . . . ," his witty new novel about secret infidelities and the nature of consciousness, unfolds in the alternating voices of Ralph Messenger, director of the Centre for Cognitive Science at the ...(展开全部)

戴维·洛奇 (David John Lodge,1935-)，英国著名小说家和文学评论家。伯明翰大学荣誉教授，英国皇家文学院院士，以文学贡献获得不列颠帝国勋章和法国文艺骑士勋章。代表作品主要有“卢密奇学院三部曲”:《换位》《小世界》和《美好的工作》；“天主教三部曲”:《大英博物馆在倒塌》《你能走多远?》和《天堂消息》；其他重要作品还有《走出防空洞》《失聪宣判》《治疗》等。并著有《小说的艺术》和《意识与小说》等多部文学批评理论文集。

Ralph Messenger is an international academic star in the highly trendy field of language and thought research. Novelist Helen Reed arrives at the university to teach creative writing and to recover from the unexpected death of her husband. Despite huge differences in belief and temperament, they begin a secret affair - with complicated consequences, comic and tragic, for those ...(展开全部)

Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantankerous voice recalls Dostoevsky, but his gift for lacerating, lyrical, provocative prose is incomparably his own.One of Bernhard's most acclaimed novels, The Loser centers on a fictional relationship between piano virtuoso G...(展开全部)

Magic the cat is very large, very round, and unable to make up his mind. Magic the cat is sort of silly, sort of sleepy, and stuck in one spot. Look! Magic the cat may not be moving, but his imagination has taken flight.

Magic the cat is very large, very round, and unable to make up his mind. Magic the cat is sort of silly, sort of sleepy, and stuck in one spot. Look! Magic the cat may not be moving, but his imagination has taken flight.

Mid-century Austria. Three aspiring concert pianists – Wertheimer, Glenn Gould, and the narrator – have dedicated their lives to achieving the status of a virtuoso. But one day, two of them overhear Gould playing Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and his incomparable genius instantly destroys them both. They are forced to abandon their musical ambitions: Wertheimer, over a tortured p...(展开全部)

托马斯·伯恩哈德（Thomas Bernhard，1931—1989） 奥地利著名小说家、剧作家，被公认为20世纪最伟大的德语作家之一，也是“二战”之后德语文坛风格最独特、影响力最大的作家之一，对他有很多称谓：“阿尔卑斯山的贝克特”“敌视人类的作家”“以批判奥地利为职业的作家”“灾难与死亡作家”“夸张艺术家”“故事破坏者”等。 特立独行的伯恩哈德以批判的方式关注人生（生存和生存危机）和社会现实（人道与社会变革）。文字极富音乐性，以犀利的夸张、重复和幽默，将人类境遇中种种愚钝与疾病，痛苦与冷漠，习惯与禁忌推向极端，向纷乱昏暗的世界投掷出一支支光与热的火炬。 译者 马文韬 北京大学德语语言文学系教授，曾任《世界文学》杂志顾问，中国外文局翻译专业资格考评中心专家，德国格里美豪森学会理事，2007年起担任奥地利托马斯·伯恩哈德基金会顾问委员会委员。主...(展开全部)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer explores humanity’s quest to make sense of the divine in this concise and fascinating history of our understanding of God. In Zealot, Reza Aslan replaced the staid, well-worn portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth with a startling new image of the man in all his contradictions. In his new book, Aslan tak...(展开全部)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer explores humanity’s quest to make sense of the divine in this concise and fascinating history of our understanding of God. In Zealot, Reza Aslan replaced the staid, well-worn portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth with a startling new image of the man in all his contradictions. In his new book, Aslan tak...(展开全部)