The Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in its entirety. It tells the story of Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic result in his transformation into an ass. After suffering a series of trials and humiliations, he is ultimately transformed back into human shape by the...(展开全部)

鲁齐乌斯·阿普列尤斯(124?-175?)出生于北非一个官吏家庭，后来入了埃及的伊希斯教门，在罗马作过律师。他的主要作品是《变形记》，又名《金驴记》。这是罗马文学中最完整的一部小说。青年鲁齐乌斯因事赴希腊北部帖萨利地方，这是有名的妖术之邦，他止宿于高利贷者米罗家中，米罗的妻子是个女术士，青年误敷了她的魔药，变成一头驴子，被一群强盗劫去，后来落到奴隶主庄园，又辗转卖给磨坊主和菜农，又为军人劫去，卖给贵族厨奴，最后伊希斯女神把他救了，他恢复了人形，就皈依伊希斯教门。 这部小说以主人公的遭遇为纽带，真实而广泛地描写了罗马帝国外省生活。例如贵族地主纵犬咬死小农三个儿子，强占土地；罗马军官强夺人民财产；富人豢养野兽，举办斗兽会等。小说也叙述了不少由于贪图金钱、遗产，或由于情欲而引起的凶杀。作者利用主人公变驴后的遭遇和感受，刻画了穷人和奴隶受奴役和虐待的处境。主...(展开全部)

The Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in its entirety. It tells the story of Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic result in his transformation into an ass. After suffering a series of trials and humiliations, he is ultimately transformed back into human shape by the...(展开全部)

鲁齐乌斯·阿普列尤斯(124?-175?)出生于北非一个官吏家庭，后来入了埃及的伊希斯教门，在罗马作过律师。他的主要作品是《变形记》，又名《金驴记》。这是罗马文学中最完整的一部小说。青年鲁齐乌斯因事赴希腊北部帖萨利地方，这是有名的妖术之邦，他止宿于高利贷者米罗家中，米罗的妻子是个女术士，青年误敷了她的魔药，变成一头驴子，被一群强盗劫去，后来落到奴隶主庄园，又辗转卖给磨坊主和菜农，又为军人劫去，卖给贵族厨奴，最后伊希斯女神把他救了，他恢复了人形，就皈依伊希斯教门。 这部小说以主人公的遭遇为纽带，真实而广泛地描写了罗马帝国外省生活。例如贵族地主纵犬咬死小农三个儿子，强占土地；罗马军官强夺人民财产；富人豢养野兽，举办斗兽会等。小说也叙述了不少由于贪图金钱、遗产，或由于情欲而引起的凶杀。作者利用主人公变驴后的遭遇和感受，刻画了穷人和奴隶受奴役和虐待的处境。主...(展开全部)

“When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.” With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his famil...(展开全部)

“When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.” With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his famil...(展开全部)

The Metamorphosis first published in 1915, it has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. The cause of Samsa's transformation is never revealed, and Kafka himself never gave an explanation. The rest of Kafka's novella deals with Gregor's attempts to adjust to his new condition as he deals with being burdensome to his parents and sister, who are repulsed by the horrible, verminous creature Gregor has become.

The Metamorphosis first published in 1915, it has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. The cause of Samsa's transformation is never revealed, and Kafka himself never gave an explanation. The rest of Kafka's novella deals with Gregor's attempts to adjust to his new condition as he deals with being burdensome to his parents and sister, who are repulsed by the horrible, verminous creature Gregor has become.

简介：一个外来生物，一个人类主人，一所学校，一个家，人性的丑恶，人心的叵测，友情？亲情？爱情？占领？代替？