Ample collection of short stories, with essays, notes and questions for each.

Sonic fiction is everywhere: in conversations about vernacular culture, in music videos, sound art compositions and on record sleeves, in everyday encounters with sonic experiences and in every single piece of writing about sound. Where one can find sounds one will also detect bits of fiction. In 1998 music critic, DJ and video essayist Kodwo Eshun proposed this concept in his ...(展开全部)

Like it or not, the term postmodernism' seems to have lodged itself in our critical and theoretical discourses. We have a postmodern architecture, a postmodern dance, perhaps even a postmodern philosophy and a postmodern condition. But do we have a postmodernist fiction? In this trenchant and lively study Brian McHale undertakes to construct a version of postmodernist fiction w...(展开全部)

In Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction, Quentin Meillassoux addresses the problem of chaos and of the constancy of natural laws in the context of literature. With his usual argumentative rigor, he elucidates the distinction between science fiction, a genre in which science remains possible in spite of all the upheavals that may attend the world in which the tale takes pla...(展开全部)

In Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction, Quentin Meillassoux addresses the problem of chaos and of the constancy of natural laws in the context of literature. With his usual argumentative rigor, he elucidates the distinction between science fiction, a genre in which science remains possible in spite of all the upheavals that may attend the world in which the tale takes pla...(展开全部)

20世纪初期，中国正经历着一场重大的社会文化变革，千年帝国分崩离析，民族面临着巨大的变革。现代化的边缘。在这样的背景下，一位来自北方的沉默寡言男子，在狂风暴雨中，踏上了前往南方城市的危险旅程。他怀着一个新生婴儿，寻找孩子的母亲和一座已不存在的城市。 这是一个关于两个人的故事：一个男人在回到抛弃他的女人的故乡后，获得了意想不到的成功；另一个男人在寻找的女人，却神秘失踪，踏上了充满波折的旅程。这是一个关于消失的工艺和古老的风俗的故事，关于暴力、爱情和友情。重要的是，这是一个关于变化和叙事本身的故事，充满了生动的人物和出人意料的转折——一个史诗般的故事，如时间本身般无情，又如经典的冒险故事般扣人心弦。 In the early 20th century, China is a land undergoing a momentous social and c...(展开全部)

Edited with an Introduction by Ian Small.

Never before available to readers in the UK, these brilliant and idiosyncratic short stories stand alongside the fictions of Borges, Beckett and Nabokov. Originally published between 1985 and 2012, these stories offer an enthralling introduction to the work of one of contemporary fiction’s greatest magicians, and a map of Gerald Murnane’s evolution as a writer. Spare, transpare...(展开全部)

This volume brings together Gerald Murnane's shorter works of fiction, most of which have been out of print for the past twenty five years. They include such masterpieces as 'When the Mice Failed to Arrive', 'Stream System', 'First Love', 'Emerald Blue', and 'The Interior of Gaaldine', a story which holds the key to the long break in Murnane's career, and points the way towards...(展开全部)

20世纪初期，中国正经历着一场重大的社会文化变革，千年帝国分崩离析，民族面临着巨大的变革。现代化的边缘。在这样的背景下，一位来自北方的沉默寡言男子，在狂风暴雨中，踏上了前往南方城市的危险旅程。他怀着一个新生婴儿，寻找孩子的母亲和一座已不存在的城市。 这是一个关于两个人的故事：一个男人在回到抛弃他的女人的故乡后，获得了意想不到的成功；另一个男人在寻找的女人，却神秘失踪，踏上了充满波折的旅程。这是一个关于消失的工艺和古老的风俗的故事，关于暴力、爱情和友情。重要的是，这是一个关于变化和叙事本身的故事，充满了生动的人物和出人意料的转折——一个史诗般的故事，如时间本身般无情，又如经典的冒险故事般扣人心弦。 In the early 20th century, China is a land undergoing a momentous social and c...(展开全部)