One day, long before the troubles, he slipped away without saying a word to anyone and never went back. And then another day, forty three years later, he collapsed just inside the front door of his house in a small English town. It was late in the day when it happened, on his way home after work, but it was also late in the day altogether. He had left things for too long and th...(展开全部)

One day, long before the troubles, he slipped away without saying a word to anyone and never went back. And then another day, forty three years later, he collapsed just inside the front door of his house in a small English town. It was late in the day when it happened, on his way home after work, but it was also late in the day altogether. He had left things for too long and th...(展开全部)

阿卜杜勒拉扎克•古尔纳，坦桑尼亚裔英国作家，2021年因“他对殖民主义文学的影响，以及对身处于不同文化夹缝中难民处境毫不妥协且富有同情心的洞察”而获诺贝尔文学奖。古尔纳1948年出生于东非海岸的桑给巴尔岛，20世纪60年代移居英国并求学，最终在肯特大学获得博士学位，留校任教至今。他的主要学术兴趣是后殖民主义写作和与殖民主义有关的论述，特别是与非洲、加勒比和印度有关的论述。曾担任凯恩非洲文学奖和布克奖评审，2006年入选皇家文学学会。古尔纳的作品围绕难民主题，主要描述殖民地人民的生存状况，聚焦于身份认同、种族冲突及历史书写等，他展现的后殖民时代生存现状被认为具有重要的社会现实意义。代表作有《天堂》《海边》《来世》等。

One day, long before the troubles, he slipped away without saying a word to anyone and never went back. And then another day, forty three years later, he collapsed just inside the front door of his house in a small English town. It was late in the day when it happened, on his way home after work, but it was also late in the day altogether. He had left things for too long and th...(展开全部)

Krishnamurti's last journal, spoken into a tape recorder at his home, Pine Cottage, in the Ojai Valley, brings the reader close to this renowned spiritual teacher. Dictated in the mornings, from his bed, undisturbed, Krishnamurti's observations are captured here in all their immediacy and candor, from personal reflections to poetic musings on nature and a serene meditation on...(展开全部)

索尔·贝娄（Saul Bellow，1915-2005）美国作家。生于加拿大魁北克省的拉辛，在蒙特利尔度过童年。1924年，举家迁至美国芝加哥。父亲是从俄国移居来的犹大商人，贝娄是家中四个孩子中最年幼的一个。1933年，贝娄考入芝加哥大学。两年后，转入伊利诺斯州埃文斯顿的西北大学，获得社会学和人类学学士学位。同年，赴麦迪威的威斯康星大学攻读硕士学位。自1938年以来，除当过编辑和记者，并于二次大战期间在海上短期服过役外，他长期在芝加哥等几所大学执教。现任芝加哥大学教授和社会思想委员会主席。 从1941年到1987年的4O余年间，贝娄共出版了9部长篇小说。早期创作有结构优美的《挂起来的人》（1944）、《受害者）（1947），颇为评论界注目。《奥吉·马奇历险记》（1953）的出版，使他一举成名，奠定了他的文学地位。由于他把“丰富多彩的流浪汉小说与当代文...(展开全部)

索尔·贝娄（Saul Bellow，1915-2005）美国作家。生于加拿大魁北克省的拉辛，在蒙特利尔度过童年。1924年，举家迁至美国芝加哥。父亲是从俄国移居来的犹大商人，贝娄是家中四个孩子中最年幼的一个。1933年，贝娄考入芝加哥大学。两年后，转入伊利诺斯州埃文斯顿的西北大学，获得社会学和人类学学士学位。同年，赴麦迪威的威斯康星大学攻读硕士学位。自1938年以来，除当过编辑和记者，并于二次大战期间在海上短期服过役外，他长期在芝加哥等几所大学执教。现任芝加哥大学教授和社会思想委员会主席。 从1941年到1987年的4O余年间，贝娄共出版了9部长篇小说。早期创作有结构优美的《挂起来的人》（1944）、《受害者）（1947），颇为评论界注目。《奥吉·马奇历险记》（1953）的出版，使他一举成名，奠定了他的文学地位。由于他把“丰富多彩的流浪汉小说与当代文...(展开全部)

Celebrated in his own time as well as the present,Rembrandt's works have remarkable staying power. His output was prodigious, totalling around 600 paintings, 300 etchings and 2,000 drawings ranging from commissioned portraits to landscapes to religious allegories. In spite of his longstanding popularity, however, authoritative accounts of Rembrandt's life and work have been dif...(展开全部)

A new biography with all accessible paintings illustrated in colour. <br />Traces the life and career of the seventeenth-century painter, shows all of his works, and offers a fresh analysis of each painting.

Michel Foucault and Paul Veyne: the philosopher and the historian. Two major figures in the world of ideas, resisting all attempts at categorization. Two timeless thinkers who have long walked and fought together. In this short book Paul Veyne offers a fresh portrait of his friend and relaunches the debate about his ideas and legacy. ‘Foucault is not who you think he is’, write...(展开全部)