Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic black...(展开全部)

Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic black...(展开全部)

Set in New England mainly and London partly, "On Beauty" concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought c...(展开全部)

作者 | 夏尔·费迪南·拉缪（Charles ferdinand Ramuz,1878—1947） 瑞士著名作家和诗人。一生创作了22部长篇小说、3部短篇小说集以及多部诗集和随笔集。1997年，瑞士国家银行将拉缪的头像及其作品元素作为国家文化象征印在了第八套面额为200瑞士法郎的纸币上。2005年，他的全部小说人选法国伽利玛出版社的“七星文库”丛书，同一年瑞士的斯拉特金出版社也推出了29卷本的《拉缪全集》，他的作品从此进入经典文学的殿堂。2019年，他的《莱芒湖畔的少女》等三部小说人选瑞士《时报》评选的“20世纪以来最优秀的50部法语作品”。 ———————————————————————————— 译者 | 金龙格 法语文学翻译家，桂林旅游学院教授、译审。1987年毕业于复旦大学外文系，曾任职于漓江出版社。2011年、2019年凭借《青春咖啡馆》和...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction and from the celebrated author of "White Teeth" comes another bestselling masterwork Having hit bestseller lists from the "New York Times" to the "San Francisco Chronicle," this wise, hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed to literary stardom. "On Beauty" is the story of an interracial family living in the university...(展开全部)

Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political interests. In "On Beauty and Being Just", Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but a...(展开全部)

伊莱恩·斯凯瑞，曾是美国哈佛大学英文系美学教授，出版了多部著作，包括《苦痛的身体》（The Body in Pain，1985）、《借书做梦》（Dreaming by the Book，1999）及一系列关于战争与社会合约的论文。 卓慧臻，美国明尼苏达大学英国文学学士，英国埃塞克斯大学女性文学硕士，英国伦敦大学亚非学院比较文学博士。2002—2006年任中国社会科学院研究生院比较文学与世界文学专业副教授。2006年至今任清华大学外国语言文学系副教授，讲授“西方戏剧精讲与表演”“英语小说”等课程。出版专著《从〈传说〉到〈巫言〉：朱天文的小说世界与台湾文化》（2009）和《重写神话：西方女作家的小说奇想》（2011）。另有多篇评论和散文：《跨越电影类型的鸿沟》（《芳草萋萋》，2012）；《中西女性战争书写：从伍尔夫与张爱玲谈起》（《中国女性文化》，第十九...(展开全部)

Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political interests. In "On Beauty and Being Just", Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but a...(展开全部)

戴夫·希基（Dave Hickey 1939- ），美国当代著名的艺术批评家、文化批评家之一，因其特立独行和直言不讳，被戏称为“艺术批评界的坏小子”“艺术批评界让人头痛的天才”，以对抗学院派艺术批评、强调自由艺术市场的价值、召唤"美的回归"而蜚声当代艺术批评界。

When the repulsively ugly Coddie unintentionally saves a fairy from a spell, she does not understand the poisonous nature of the wish granted her by the fairy. The village folk no longer see her as repulsive and stinking of fish—they now perceive her as magnetically beautiful—which does not help her in her village. A young local lord saves her, but it soon becomes apparent that...(展开全部)