'I am sixteen. I am as old as the century' It is 1916. Vincent is sixteen, on the brink of manhood. Vincent is aristocratic and privileged, frequenting the salons of Paris while France is at war and the city almost deserted of men. In that brutal summer, Vincent's beauty and precocity captivate two men: Marcel, some thirty years his senior, a writer and celebrated socialite; an...(展开全部)

Like Michael Cunningham's homage to Virginia Woolf in The Hours and Jean Rhys's to Charlotte Bronte in The Wide Sargasso Sea, Philippe Besson's extravagantly praised first novel pays tribute to Marcel Proust. It also dares to introduce an asthmatic middle-aged Proust into its masterfully manipulated plot and invents a series of deeply felt letters written by him to the novel's ...(展开全部)

玛格丽特·杜拉斯（Marguerite Duras，1914-1996）法国小说家、剧作家、电影导演，本名玛格丽特·多纳迪厄，出生于印度支那，在那里度过生命最初十八年的时光。炎热杂乱的殖民地，窘迫变迁的家境，忍耐偏执的母亲，放荡骄纵的大哥，温情落寞的“小哥哥”，如此种种影响了杜拉斯一生，在她日后创作中刻下深深的烙印。1932年后回法国定居，进入大学学习政治、法律等，曾在法国政府殖民部工作，参加过抵抗运动。1943年，以杜拉斯为笔名发表第一部小说《无耻之徒》，从此步入文坛。1950年的《抵挡太平洋的堤坝》广受好评，入围当年龚古尔文学奖，并被改编成电影。一生创作了大量小说、剧作和电影作品，以电影《广岛之恋》（1959年）和《印度之歌》（1975年）赢得国际声誉，以小说《情人》（1984年）获得当年龚古尔文学奖。 译者简介：陈景亮，著名电影研究专家、翻译家...(展开全部)

玛格丽特·杜拉斯（Marguerite Duras，1914-1996）法国小说家、剧作家、电影导演，本名玛格丽特·多纳迪厄，出生于印度支那，在那里度过生命最初十八年的时光。炎热杂乱的殖民地，窘迫变迁的家境，忍耐偏执的母亲，放荡骄纵的大哥，温情落寞的“小哥哥”，如此种种影响了杜拉斯一生，在她日后创作中刻下深深的烙印。1932年后回法国定居，进入大学学习政治、法律等，曾在法国政府殖民部工作，参加过抵抗运动。1943年，以杜拉斯为笔名发表第一部小说《无耻之徒》，从此步入文坛。1950年的《抵挡太平洋的堤坝》广受好评，入围当年龚古尔文学奖，并被改编成电影。一生创作了大量小说、剧作和电影作品，以电影《广岛之恋》（1959年）和《印度之歌》（1975年）赢得国际声誉，以小说《情人》（1984年）获得当年龚古尔文学奖。 译者简介：陈景亮，著名电影研究专家、翻译家...(展开全部)

In this extraordinary non-fiction novel, based on a true story, Tahar Ben Jelloun traces the experiences of Salim who, in 1971, took part in a failed coup attempt to oust King Hassan II of Morocco. With sixty others Salim was incarcerated in a secret prison complex in the Moroccan desert: he was to remain there for nearly twenty years. In starkly eloquent, beautiful prose, Ben ...(展开全部)

An immediate and critically acclaimed bestseller in France, This Blinding Absence of Light is the latest work by internationally renowned author Tahar Ben Jelloun, the first North African winner of the Prix Goncourt and winner of the Prix Mahgreb. Crafting real life events into narrative fiction, Ben Jelloun reveals the horrific story of the desert concentration camps in whic...(展开全部)

An immediate and critically acclaimed bestseller in France, This Blinding Absence of Light is the latest work by internationally renowned author Tahar Ben Jelloun, the first North African winner of the Prix Goncourt and winner of the Prix Mahgreb. Crafting real life events into narrative fiction, Ben Jelloun reveals the horrific story of the desert concentration camps in whic...(展开全部)

In this extraordinary non-fiction novel, based on a true story, Tahar Ben Jelloun traces the experiences of Salim who, in 1971, took part in a failed coup attempt to oust King Hassan II of Morocco. With sixty others Salim was incarcerated in a secret prison complex in the Moroccan desert: he was to remain there for nearly twenty years. In starkly eloquent, beautiful prose, Ben ...(展开全部)

Nothing is not. Yet it seems that we invoke absences and nothings often in our philosophical explanations. Negative metaphysics is on the rise. It has been claimed that absences can be causes, there are negative properties, absences can be perceived, there are negative facts, and we can refer to and speak about nothing. Parmenides long ago ruled against such things. Here we con...(展开全部)

Nothing is not. Yet it seems that we invoke absences and nothings often in our philosophical explanations. Negative metaphysics is on the rise. It has been claimed that absences can be causes, there are negative properties, absences can be perceived, there are negative facts, and we can refer to and speak about nothing. Parmenides long ago ruled against such things. Here we con...(展开全部)