The amusingly odd protagonist and narrator is an academic on sabbatical in Berlin to work on his book about Titian. With his research completed, all he has left to do is sit down and write. He can't decide how to refer to his subject, so instead he starts watching TV continuously, until one day he decides to renounce the most addictive of twentieth-century inventions. As he spe...(展开全部)

What would an anatomy of the book look like? There is the main text, of course, the file that the author proudly submits to their publisher. But around this, hemming it in on the page or enclosing it at the front and back of the book, there are dozens of other texts―page numbers and running heads, copyright statements and errata lists―each possessed of particular conventions, e...(展开全部)

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol and extreme cinema. The n...(展开全部)

让-菲利普·图森（Jean-Philippe Toussaint，1957年出生），比利时法语小说家，法国“新小说”新一代的代表人物之一（图森自己称其作品为“新新小说”）。图森1957年出生于比利时，1972年起定居法国，他的小说均由法国著名的午夜出版社出版。 截至2005年图森已出版的小说包括有：《浴室》（1985年）、《先生》（1986年）、《照相机》（1989年）、《迟疑》（1998年）、《电视》（1998年）、《自画像（在国外）》（2000年）、《做爱》（2002年）和《逃跑》（获得2005年法国“美第奇图书奖”）、《齐达内的忧郁》（2006年）。此外他还导演电影《先生》（改编自同名小说，1990年）、《塞维利亚人》（改编自《照相机》，1993年）以及《溜冰场》（1998年）。《玛丽的真相》是让-菲利普·图森发表于2009年的新作，与《做爱》...(展开全部)

The Television Studies Reader brings together key writings in the expanding field of television studies, providing an overview of the discipline and addressing issues of industry, genre, audiences, production and ownership, and representation. The Reader charts the ways in which television and television studies are being redefined by new and 'alternative' ways of producing, b...(展开全部)

The unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartet. A celebration of companionship in all its timeless and contemporary, legendary and unpindownable, spellbinding and shapeshifting forms... It follows the unique achievement of her Seasonal cycle of novels - Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer - written and published in as close ...(展开全部)