In 1921, at the age of eleven, Isaiah Berlin arrived in England from Riga, Latvia. By the time he was thirty he was at the heart of British intellectual life. He has remained its commanding presence ever since, and few would dispute that he was one of Britain's greatest thinkers. His reputation extends worldwide--as a great conversationalist, intellectual historian, and man of ...(展开全部)

In 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage-set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural life of the city. Berlin Stories collects his alternately celebratory, droll, and satirical observations on every aspect of the bustling German capital, from its theaters, cabar...(展开全部)

The Berlin Stories is a book comprising two short novels by Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin and Mr. Norris Changes Trains. It was published in 1946. The Berlin Stories was chosen as a TIME 100 Best English-language novels of the 20th century.

Completing the most comprehensive and authoritative study ever written of the Soviet-German war, John Erickson in this volume tells the vivid and compelling story of the Red Army's epic struggle to drive the Germans from Russian soil. Beginning with the destruction of the German Army at Stalingrad, he describes a campaign of almost unimaginable hardship and fighting that led to...(展开全部)

Goodbye to Berlin is a short novel by Christopher Isherwood. It is often published together with The Last of Mr. Norris in a collection called The Berlin Stories. The novel, a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin, describes pre-Nazi Germany and the people he met. Moving to Germany to work on his novel, Isherwood soon becomes involved with many differ...(展开全部)

阿尔弗雷德•安德施（Alfred Andersch，1914-1980） 战后德国最重要的小说家之一。在战后几年中，安德施帮助建立了德国新的民族文学，而他最著名的小说，即《桑给巴尔或最后一个理由》（英译本名为Flight to Afar）被翻译成多种主要语言，并成为国际畅销书。作为一名自成流派的大师，安德施“深受萨特影响，并为托马斯•曼所推崇”，更被世人尊为“自由的倡导者”。 姚月 1962年生，1987年赴德国深造，并在德国长期从事教学及翻译工作。近年来翻译了德国著名作家汉斯•马格努斯•恩岑斯贝格尔的诗集《比空气轻》，传记文学《将军和他的子女们》《动荡》；奥地利著名儿童文学作家汉斯•雅尼什的童诗集《今天我想慢吞吞》。

马丁·瓦尔泽（Martin Walser），德国著名小说家、剧作家，1927年生于德国博登湖畔瓦塞堡，是当代德语文坛中与西格弗里德·伦茨、君特·格拉斯等齐名的文学大师。 瓦尔泽是一位主要以现实主义方法进行创作的作家，擅长描写人物的内心世界，往往通过心理分析、借喻、细节 描写和讥讽反映社会生活的变迁和社会真实。 主要作品有《惊马奔逃》（1978）、《迸涌的流泉》（1998）、《批评家之死》（2002）、《恋爱中的男人》（2008）、《寻找死亡的男人》（2016）、《逃之夭夭》（2017）等。 他曾于1981年获毕希纳文学奖，1998年获德国书业和平奖，另外也曾获黑塞奖、席勒促进奖等重要文学奖项。其作品数度在德国引起强烈争议。

Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, "Berlin Childhood around 1900" remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime, one of his 'large-scale defeats'. Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the basis of the recently discovered 'final version' that contains the author's own arrangement of a suite of luminous vignette...(展开全部)