Gaspard Winckler, master forger, is trapped in a basement studio on the outskirts of Paris, with his paymaster's blood on his hands. The motive for this murder? A perversion of artistic ambition. After a lifetime lived in the shadows, he has strayed too close to the sun. Fittingly for such an enigmatic writer, Portrait of a Man is both Perec's first novel and his last. Frustrat...(展开全部)

In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsounding, material and nonmaterial, literal and metaphorical. In The Voice as Something More, Martha Feldman and Judith T. Zeitlin tackle these paradoxes with a bold and rigorous collection of essays that look at voice as both object of ...(展开全部)

Geoff Dyer has earned the devotion of passionate fans on both sides of the Atlantic through his wildly inventive, romantic novels as well as several brilliant, uncategorizable works of nonfiction. All the while he has been writing some of the wittiest, most incisive criticism we have on an astonishing array of subjects—music, literature, photography, and travel journalism—that,...(展开全部)

这是一部非凡而又反抗性的著作，作者是知名作家李翊云，她对失去儿子詹姆斯的痛苦有着深刻的接受。 “没有好的方式来表达这一点，”李翊云在这本书的开头写道。 “没有好的方式来陈述这些必须承认的事实。我丈夫和我有两个孩子，都失去了他们：文森特于 2017 年去世，享年 16 岁，詹姆斯于 2024 年去世，享年 19 岁。两人都选择了自杀，死在离家不远的地方。” 没有好的方式来表达这一点——因为语言不足以表达。死亡只需一瞬间就能成为事实，“时间轴上的一个点”。现在，李翊云生活在这个点上，她开始思考和推理，寻找可能为詹姆斯留有一席之地的词语。李翊云尽其所能：不仅写作，还做园艺、阅读加缪和维特根斯坦的作品、学习钢琴，并在死亡旁边思考地生活。 这是一本写给詹姆斯的书，但不是一本关于悲伤或哀悼的书。正如李写道：“永不消逝的动词是存在。文森特过去是、现在是、将来也永远...(展开全部)

Yiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James. “There is no good way to say this,” Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book. “There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged. My husband and I had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose s...(展开全部)

这是一部非凡而又反抗性的著作，作者是知名作家李翊云，她对失去儿子詹姆斯的痛苦有着深刻的接受。 “没有好的方式来表达这一点，”李翊云在这本书的开头写道。 “没有好的方式来陈述这些必须承认的事实。我丈夫和我有两个孩子，都失去了他们：文森特于 2017 年去世，享年 16 岁，詹姆斯于 2024 年去世，享年 19 岁。两人都选择了自杀，死在离家不远的地方。” 没有好的方式来表达这一点——因为语言不足以表达。死亡只需一瞬间就能成为事实，“时间轴上的一个点”。现在，李翊云生活在这个点上，她开始思考和推理，寻找可能为詹姆斯留有一席之地的词语。李翊云尽其所能：不仅写作，还做园艺、阅读加缪和维特根斯坦的作品、学习钢琴，并在死亡旁边思考地生活。 这是一本写给詹姆斯的书，但不是一本关于悲伤或哀悼的书。正如李写道：“永不消逝的动词是存在。文森特过去是、现在是、将来也永远...(展开全部)

Yiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James. “There is no good way to say this,” Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book. “There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged. My husband and I had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose s...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Edward P. Jones, two-time National Book Award finalist, tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs wi...(展开全部)

Bob Slocum is a promising executive and society demands that he should be happy. But his wife is a drunken flirt and his daughter wages her own cunning campaign against him. Slocum's soliloquy moves to a shocking climax as fate hands him a tragic focus for his despair.

Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house...and all the mistresses he desired. He had it all -- all, that is, but happiness. Slocum was discontent. Inevitably, inexorably, his discontent deteriorated into desolation until...something happened. "Something Happened" is Joseph Heller's wonderfully inventive and controve...(展开全部)