One of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, "I Remember", consists of 480 numbered paragraphs - each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end, nor does it contain any analysis. But it nonetheless reveals profound truths about French society during the 1940s and '50s. Taking Perec's book as its cue, "T...(展开全部)

One of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, "I Remember", consists of 480 numbered paragraphs - each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end, nor does it contain any analysis. But it nonetheless reveals profound truths about French society during the 1940s and '50s. Taking Perec's book as its cue, "T...(展开全部)

I Remember, one of French writer Georges Perec’s most famous pieces, consists of 480 numbered paragraphs—each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end. Nor does it contain any analysis. But it nonetheless reveals profound truths about French society during the 1940s and 50s. Taking Perec’s book as its cue, Telling...(展开全部)

作者简介 乔伊斯·阿普尔比，美国加州大学洛杉矶分校历史学教授。著有《历史想像中的自由主义与共和政治：1790年代的杰弗逊式看法》、《17世纪英国的经济思想与意识形态》。曾于1991—1992年担任美国历史学会主席。 林恩·亨特，美国宾州大学安柏格历史讲座教授，新文化史运动的主要倡导者和领导者之一。著有《法国大革命的家族传奇》、《法国大革命的政治、文化与阶级》，曾主编《新文化史》以及《色情之发明：诲淫与现代性之起源,1500—1800年》。 玛格丽特·雅各布，美国社会研究新学院的历史学教授。著有《启蒙时代的生活：18世纪欧洲的共济会与政治》、《激进的启蒙运动：泛神论者、共济会员与共和党人》、《牛顿主义者与英国革命，1689—1720年》、《科学革命的文化意义》。 译者简介 刘北成 清华大学历史系系主任，著名学者、翻译家。译有《历史研究》《疯癫与文明》...(展开全部)

"A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a discipline."— Booklist

Including 19 short stories, this volume presents characters that experience first hand the infuriating way life defies all attempts to control it. Bleak moments of self discovery for some are counterpointed with stories of wry humour and irony.

The Left Hand of DarknessSutty， an Observer from Earth for the interstellar Ekumen， has been assigned to a new world-a world in the grips of a stern monolithic state， the Corporation. Embracing the sophisticated technology brought by other worlds and desiring to advance even faster into the future， the Akans recently outlawed the past， the old calligraphy， certain words， all an...(展开全部)

There have been eighty requests to send an Observer into the hinterlands of the planet Aka to study the natives. Much to everyone's surprise, the eighty-first request is granted, and Observer Sutty is sent upriver to Okzat-Ozkat, a small city in the foothills of Rangma, to talk to the remnants in hiding of a cult practising a banned religion. On Aka, everything that was written...(展开全部)

The Left Hand of DarknessSutty， an Observer from Earth for the interstellar Ekumen， has been assigned to a new world-a world in the grips of a stern monolithic state， the Corporation. Embracing the sophisticated technology brought by other worlds and desiring to advance even faster into the future， the Akans recently outlawed the past， the old calligraphy， certain words， all an...(展开全部)

There have been eighty requests to send an Observer into the hinterlands of the planet Aka to study the natives. Much to everyone's surprise, the eighty-first request is granted, and Observer Sutty is sent upriver to Okzat-Ozkat, a small city in the foothills of Rangma, to talk to the remnants in hiding of a cult practising a banned religion. On Aka, everything that was written...(展开全部)