No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov’s to Véra Slonim. She shared his delight at the enchantment of life’s trifles and literature’s treasures, and he rated her as having the best and quickest sense of humor of any woman he had met. From their first encounter in 1923, Vladimir’s letters to Véra chronicle a half-century...(展开全部)

The letters of the great writer to his wife—gathered here for the first time—chronicle a decades-long love story and document anew the creative energies of an artist who was always at work. No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov’s to Véra Slonim. She shared his delight in life’s trifles and literature’s treasures, and h...(展开全部)

No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. Véra Slonim shared his delight at the enchantment of life's trifles and literature's treasures, and he rated her as having the best and quickest sense of humour of any woman he had met. From their meeting in 1921, Vladimir's letters to his beloved Véra form a narrative arc that tells a forty-...(展开全部)

Franz Kafka first met Felice Bauer in August 1912, at the home of his friend Max Brod. The twenty-five-year-old career woman from Berlin—energetic, down-to-earth, life-affirming—awakened in him a desire to marry. Kafka wrote to Felice almost daily, sometimes even twice a day. Because he was living in Prague and she in Berlin, their letters became their sole source of knowledge ...(展开全部)

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Brilliantly translated by Lydia Davis, here are Proust’s tormented, touching, and often very funny letters to his noisy neighbor. Marcel Proust’s genius for illuminating pain is on spectacular display in this recently discovered trove of his correspondence, Letters to His Neighbor. Already suffering from noise within his cork-lined walls, his poor soul was not ready for the fre...(展开全部)

霍华德·苏伯（Howard Suber），UCLA（洛杉矶加大）资深电影教授，执教四十余年，曾荣获杰出教师奖，学生遍及整个美国电影业界。他曾担任UCLA电影学院副院长，组织创办了UCLA电影资料馆并担任馆长，发起电影评论研究计划，同时还是UCLA影视制片人项目创始人。此外，霍华德在业内受聘担任各大电影公司的顾问和专业见证人，长期参与一线决策，在版权、创作控制事务等方面进行把关，为员工进行电影业务知识培训，是无数作品背后的重要推手。如今，他继续在教授影片结构和电影创作的战略性思考方面的课程，著有《电影的力量》（The Power of Film）一书。 译者赵晶，先后获得外交学院英语系学士学位和中国电影艺术中心电影学系硕士学位。现任职于中国电影资料馆，主要从事国际电影文化交流和推广工作，另译有《简明世界电影史》。

Brilliantly translated by Lydia Davis, here are Proust’s tormented, touching, and often very funny letters to his noisy neighbor. Marcel Proust’s genius for illuminating pain is on spectacular display in this recently discovered trove of his correspondence, Letters to His Neighbor. Already suffering from noise within his cork-lined walls, his poor soul was not ready for the fre...(展开全部)

Letters written over a period of several years on the vocation of writing by a poet whose greatest work was still to come.