Finally back in print: The definitive biography of the legendary Japanese writer-legendary as much for his tumultuous life and macabre suicide as for his Nobel-nominated writings At forty-five, Yukio Mishima was the outstanding Japanese writer of his generation, celebrated both at home and abroad for The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. In 1970 he startled the world b...(展开全部)

説明 なぜ三島由紀夫の評伝をアメリカ人が書けるのか、と日本人読者が奇異の念を持つのは最初だけはやむをない。しかし本書をひもとけばハラキリの「MISHIMA」ではなく、まさに作家としての「三島由紀夫」を書きえたネイスンの達者な筆使いに一驚するだろう。 この見事な評伝における三島理解は一貫している。特異な家庭環境で育った蒼白な「平岡公威」に胚胎した「運命＝美＝死」という「聖体共在（コンサブスタンシエーション）」を著者は指摘し、この「浪曼的憧憬」の発展形として後半生を跡づけようと試みる。すなわち「感性の密林」を持て余す三島は、たとえば『仮面の告白』で描写されている「神輿の担ぎ手」の「陶酔」から「『悲劇的に』隔てられている」ような引け目を感じていたという。不健康なこの資質「血と夜と死の世界」に訣別しようとした三島はギリシアと遭遇し、「陶酔」に見合うべく肉体（...(展开全部)

Éric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and thought about cinema for decades. This exhaustive biography uses personal archives and interviews to enrich our knowledge of Rohmer's public achievements and lesser known interests. Despite an austere approach to life, Rohmer had a voracious appetite for art, culture, and intellectual debate captured vividly in this d...(展开全部)

En 1970, à quarante-cinq ans, Yukio Mishima, le plus brillant écrivain de sa génération, auteur de quarante romans, dix-huit pièces de théâtre, vingt volumes de nouvelles et autant d’essais littéraires, à la fois metteur en scène, acteur, escrimeur d’élite et athlète, déjà trois fois pressenti pour le prix Nobel, horrifiait le monde entier en se suicidant en public par seppuku ...(展开全部)

This story of Elizabeth Barrett Brownings cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening pages. Although Flush has adventures of his own with bullying dogs, horrid maids, and robbers, he also provides the reader with a glimpse into Brownings life. Introduction by Trekkie Ritchie.

Virginia Woolf's exuberant `biography' tells the story of the cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando who begins life as a young noble in the sixteenth century and moves through numerous historical and geographical worlds to finish as a modern woman writer in the 1920s. The book is in part a happy tribute to the `life' that her love for Vita Sackville-West had breathed into Virgin...(展开全部)

One of the founders of modern philosophical thought Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) has gained the reputation of being one of the most abstruse and impenetrable of thinkers. This major biography of Hegel offers not only a complete account of the life, but also a perspicuous overview of the key philosophical concepts in Hegel's work in a style that will be accessible t...(展开全部)

One of the founders of modern philosophical thought Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) has gained the reputation of being one of the most abstruse and impenetrable of thinkers. This first major biography of Hegel in English offers not only a complete, up-to-date account of the life, but also an overview of the key philosophical concepts in Hegel's work in an accessible s...(展开全部)

莉利亚·莫里茨·施瓦茨（Lilia Moritz Schwarcz），巴西圣保罗大学人类学教授，普林斯顿大学拉丁美洲研究所西班牙语和葡萄牙语语言和文化系客座教授，多部作品被译为英文。 埃洛伊萨·穆尔热尔·斯塔林（Heloisa Murgel Starling），巴西米纳斯吉拉斯联邦大学教授。 熊芳华，湖北大学外国语学院讲师，该校巴西研究中心研究人员，译有《巴西的强国抱负》。

Shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize for the Best Brazilian Book Published Abroad Since Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500 it has been an unfailing source of extraordinary fascination. More than any other part of the 'New World' it displayed both the greatest beauty and grandeur and witnessed scenes of the most terrible European ferocity. Brazil: A Biography, written by two of ...(展开全部)