Hailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves together personal history, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts by Sophocles, Ovid, Euripides, and Sappho, The Elusive Embrace is a profound exploration of the mysteries of identity.It is also a meditation in which the author uses his own divided life to investigate ...(展开全部)

This provocative literary debut--part personal history, part commentary--interweaves explications of Greek philosophers with commentary of our own era to provide a lyrical and highly charged quest for a personal mythology.

【美】阿米尔·艾克塞尔（Amir D. Aczel） 国际著名数学家、科学史研究专家。出生于以色列海法．加州大学伯克利分校获得数学学士和物理学硕士，之后又在俄勒冈大学获得统计学博士学位。著有经典科普作品《费马大定理——解开一个古老数学问题的秘密》《费马大定理》《几率1》《商用统计学》《上帝的方程式——爱因斯坦、相对论和膨胀的宇宙》等。他是个说故事的能手，并是翻译爱因斯坦某些信件的第一人。

【美】阿米尔·艾克塞尔（Amir D. Aczel） 国际著名数学家、科学史研究专家。出生于以色列海法．加州大学伯克利分校获得数学学士和物理学硕士，之后又在俄勒冈大学获得统计学博士学位。著有经典科普作品《费马大定理——解开一个古老数学问题的秘密》《费马大定理》《几率1》《商用统计学》《上帝的方程式——爱因斯坦、相对论和膨胀的宇宙》等。他是个说故事的能手，并是翻译爱因斯坦某些信件的第一人。

Monte Verita was once the site of a famous avant-garde community attracting celebrities such as Isadora Duncan, Carl Jung and Thomas Mann. Legend has it that its leader had himself sealed in a grotto in the hillside; when it was unsealed, he had vanished. It is now 1938, and nearby Ascona is hosting a conference on the locked room mystery. A number of the participants are secre...(展开全部)

Monte Verita was once the site of a famous avant-garde community attracting celebrities such as Isadora Duncan, Carl Jung and Thomas Mann. Legend has it that its leader had himself sealed in a grotto in the hillside; when it was unsealed, he had vanished. It is now 1938, and nearby Ascona is hosting a conference on the locked room mystery. A number of the participants are secre...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance: the fear of death, love and sexuality, anger and aggression. Like medicine, philosophy to them was a rigorous science aimed both at understanding and at producing the flourishing of human life....(展开全部)

David Kepesh, an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling, tries to make his way to both pleasure and dignity through a world of sensual possibilities. Temptation comes to him in both its ordinary and spectacular forms, and the novel charts the history of his desire from the early years, when he is acceded to it totally, to the time when he attempts to domesticate his passio...(展开全部)

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself "a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes." Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be—or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a ménage à trois in London to the throes of loneliness in New York, he creates a supre...(展开全部)