The introduction of this book reads, "Beauty, like every other quality — courage, fear, ugliness, trust, truth, wisdom — is a part of us and apart from us, inside us and outside us, personal and impersonal. Beauty invites us to build bridges and make connections between the senses and the soul, between contemplation and expression, between ourselves and the world." In this wide...(展开全部)

库尔特•冯内古特（Kurt Vonnegut，1922—2007） 20 世纪美国最重要、最有影响的黑色幽默文学代表作家。代表作有《猫的摇篮》、《五号屠场》、《冠军早餐》、《时震》、《囚鸟》等。他的作品抓住了他处身时代的情绪，并激发了一代人的想象。 冯内古特是出生在美国的犹太人，1940年考取康奈尔大学，主修化学。1944年珍珠港事件爆发，主张反战的他志愿参军，远赴欧洲战场。1945年遭德军俘虏，被囚禁在德累斯顿战俘营。冯内古特的文学创作，不少灵感正是来自于在战俘营的经历。战后冯内古特在芝加哥大学获得人类学硕士学位，后在哈佛大学任教。他从50年代起开始发表短篇小说，60年代起开始出版长篇。晚年的冯内古特在曼哈顿和纽约长岛的田园里颐养天年。2007 年3月在家中楼梯上不慎摔倒，同年4 月11 日，在曼哈顿逝世。

"Look at the Birdie" evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town Lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. In "Confido", a family learns the downside of confiding their deepest secrets into a magical invention. In "Ed Luby's Key Club", a man finds himself in a Kaf...(展开全部)

A dying man cautiously unravels the mysteries of memory and creation. Vadim is a Russian emigre who, like Nabokov, is a novelist, poet and critic. There are threads linking the fictional hero with his creator as he reconstructs the images of his past from young love to his serious illness.

Look at the harlequins ...Play! Invent the world! Invent reality'. This is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian born writer Vadim Vadimovich, who emigrates to England, then Paris, then Germany and then the US, and, now dying, reconstructs his past. He remembers Iris his first wife, Annette his long-necked typist and Bel his daughter, as well as his own bizarre 'nume...(展开全部)

Look at the harlequins ...Play! Invent the world! Invent reality'. This is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian born writer Vadim Vadimovich, who emigrates to England, then Paris, then Germany and then the US, and, now dying, reconstructs his past. He remembers Iris his first wife, Annette his long-necked typist and Bel his daughter, as well as his own bizarre 'nume...(展开全部)

In this masterly, highly original narrative history, Peter Englund takes a revelatory new approach to the history of World War I, magnifying its least examined, most stirring component: the experiences of the average man and woman—not only the tragedy and horror but also the absurdity and even, at times, the beauty. The twenty people from whose journals and letters Englund ...(展开全部)

An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of twenty men and women from around the globe--a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like. In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event by weaving together accounts of the average man or woman who experienced it. Drawing on...(展开全部)

Robert Bresson makes some quite radical distinctions between what he terms "cinematography" and something quite different: "cinema"-which is for him nothing but an attempt to photograph theater and use it for the screen. Director of "The Trial of Joan of Arc, Pickpocket, A Prisoner Escapes, Diary of a Country Priest, Money," and many other classic films, Robert Bresson is, quit...(展开全部)

张新木，江苏高淳人。南京大学法语系教授、博士生导师。曾任南京大学外国语学院副院长、中国驻法国大使馆教育处一等秘书。1985年起从事符号学研究，发表相关论文30余篇，翻译出版法国文学与社科名著《巴黎圣母院》、《游荡的影子》、《冷记忆》1-5等30余部，编写出版法语教材及参与编写中外母语研究专著10余部，主持和参与国家、教育部及江苏省社科项目5项，主持建设国家精品课程“法语阅读”。2006年获法国政府棕榈教育勋章(骑士)，2008年获江苏省第三届紫金文学奖翻译奖。 罗贝尔·布列松于1907年9月25日生于法国多姆山省(Puv-de-Deme)。1943年，他拍摄了第一部长片《罪恶天使》。1945年，他从狄德罗《宿命论者雅克》的一个片断中得到启发，拍摄了《布洛涅森林中的贵妇》。他改编拍摄了贝尔纳诺斯(Bemanos)的《乡村牧师日记》(1951年)...(展开全部)