Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" ("Los Angeles Times Book Review"). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neu...(展开全部)

Risk analyst James Axton lives in Athens and works across Greece and the Middle East, part of a community of American ex-pats that includes his estranged wife and child. Their peripatetic existence is interrupted when a horrific, unexplained murder on the island of Kouros becomes the catalyst for Axton becoming embroiled in a dizzying conspiracy of ritualistic violence, cultism...(展开全部)

Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" ("Los Angeles Times Book Review"). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neu...(展开全部)

Risk analyst James Axton lives in Athens and works across Greece and the Middle East, part of a community of American ex-pats that includes his estranged wife and child. Their peripatetic existence is interrupted when a horrific, unexplained murder on the island of Kouros becomes the catalyst for Axton becoming embroiled in a dizzying conspiracy of ritualistic violence, cultism...(展开全部)

- 作者简介 - 吉尔伯特·西蒙东（Gilbert Simondon，1924—1989），法国哲学家，主要著作有《个体及其物理—生物起源》、《心理与集体的个体生成》和《论技术物的存在模式》。他对个体生成、技术物等概念的阐发深刻地影响了吉尔·德勒兹、菲利克斯·加塔利、贝尔纳·斯蒂格勒、布鲁诺·拉图尔等哲学家。 - 译者简介 - 宋德超，巴黎第八大学法国语言与文学专业博士，现任教于西安外国语大学欧洲学院，研究方向为语言的诗学与政治学，译有《追寻消失的真实》等书。

- 作者简介 - 吉尔伯特·西蒙东（Gilbert Simondon，1924—1989），法国哲学家，主要著作有《个体及其物理—生物起源》、《心理与集体的个体生成》和《论技术物的存在模式》。他对个体生成、技术物等概念的阐发深刻地影响了吉尔·德勒兹、菲利克斯·加塔利、贝尔纳·斯蒂格勒、布鲁诺·拉图尔等哲学家。 - 译者简介 - 宋德超，巴黎第八大学法国语言与文学专业博士，现任教于西安外国语大学欧洲学院，研究方向为语言的诗学与政治学，译有《追寻消失的真实》等书。

A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago Senhor José is a lonely civil servant who spends his days labouring in the labyrinthine stacks of Lisbon's central registry. Among the file-cards for the living and the dead, one – of an apparently ordinary woman – will transform his life. Breaking away from his ...(展开全部)

A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago Senhor José is a lonely civil servant who spends his days labouring in the labyrinthine stacks of Lisbon's central registry. Among the file-cards for the living and the dead, one – of an apparently ordinary woman – will transform his life. Breaking away from his ...(展开全部)