Mid-century Austria. Three aspiring concert pianists – Wertheimer, Glenn Gould, and the narrator – have dedicated their lives to achieving the status of a virtuoso. But one day, two of them overhear Gould playing Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and his incomparable genius instantly destroys them both. They are forced to abandon their musical ambitions: Wertheimer, over a tortured p...(展开全部)

托马斯·伯恩哈德（Thomas Bernhard，1931—1989） 奥地利著名小说家、剧作家，被公认为20世纪最伟大的德语作家之一，也是“二战”之后德语文坛风格最独特、影响力最大的作家之一，对他有很多称谓：“阿尔卑斯山的贝克特”“敌视人类的作家”“以批判奥地利为职业的作家”“灾难与死亡作家”“夸张艺术家”“故事破坏者”等。 特立独行的伯恩哈德以批判的方式关注人生（生存和生存危机）和社会现实（人道与社会变革）。文字极富音乐性，以犀利的夸张、重复和幽默，将人类境遇中种种愚钝与疾病，痛苦与冷漠，习惯与禁忌推向极端，向纷乱昏暗的世界投掷出一支支光与热的火炬。 译者 马文韬 北京大学德语语言文学系教授，曾任《世界文学》杂志顾问，中国外文局翻译专业资格考评中心专家，德国格里美豪森学会理事，2007年起担任奥地利托马斯·伯恩哈德基金会顾问委员会委员。主...(展开全部)

Johnny Orchard brings home a playful bear cub that soon becomes huge and a nuisance to the neighbors.

Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantankerous voice recalls Dostoevsky, but his gift for lacerating, lyrical, provocative prose is incomparably his own.One of Bernhard's most acclaimed novels, The Loser centers on a fictional relationship between piano virtuoso G...(展开全部)

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Quanta Magazine's stories of mathematical explorations show that "inspiration strikes willy-nilly," revealing surprising solutions and exciting discoveries. These stories from Quanta Magazine map the routes of mathematical exploration, showing readers how cutting-edge research is done, while illuminating the productive tension between conjecture and proof, theory and intuition....(展开全部)

By 2030, China's cities will be home to 1 billion people one in every eight people on earth. What kind of lives will China's urban billion lead? And what will China's cities be like? Over the past thirty years, China's urban population expanded by 500 million people, and is on track to swell by a further 300 million by 2030. Hundreds of millions of these new urban residents are...(展开全部)

By 2030, China's cities will be home to 1 billion people - one in every eight people on earth. What kind of lives will China's urban billion lead? And what will China's cities be like? Over the past thirty years, China's urban population expanded by 500 million people, and is on track to swell by a further 300 million by 2030. Hundreds of millions of these new urban residents a...(展开全部)

By 2030, China's cities will be home to 1 billion people - one in every eight people on earth. What kind of lives will China's urban billion lead? And what will China's cities be like? Over the past thirty years, China's urban population expanded by 500 million people, and is on track to swell by a further 300 million by 2030. Hundreds of millions of these new urban residents a...(展开全部)

Are our lives meaningful, or meaningless? Is our inevitable death a bad thing? Would immortality be an improvement? Would it be better, all things considered, to hasten our deaths by suicide? Many people ask these big questions -- and some people are plagued by them. Surprisingly, analytic philosophers have said relatively little about these important questions about the meanin...(展开全部)