弗朗西斯·蓬热（Francis Ponge, 1899-1990），20世纪法国文坛上独树一帜的诗人。曾多次获得法国及国际诗歌大奖，其中包括尼希塔得国际文学奖（1974）、法国国家诗歌奖（1981）、法兰西学院诗歌大奖（1984）。主要作品有：《采取事物的立场》、《大诗集》、《卷一》、《草场的制作》、《当代作坊》、《新新诗歌集》、《何为一只语言的无花果以及为何》、《写作的实践，或永恒的未完成》等。

Never before available in English, River of Fire, originally published as Aag ka Darya in 1959, is without question the most important novel of 20th-century Urdu literature. An amazing, sui generis book, River of Fire spans two and a half millennia. Set during four Indian epochs (the classical, the medieval, the colonial, and the modern post-national), the novel is a meditation...(展开全部)

Whereas for the wider public Jan Patočka is known mainly through the circumstances of his death in Prague, on March 13, 1977, after long interrogations by the Communist secret police, as a defender of human and civic rights in Czechoslovakia and one of the first spokespersons of the Charter 77 movement, the international philosophical community sees in him an important and insp...(展开全部)