Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation - and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting

Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation - and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting

Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reorder...(展开全部)

Shojo manga are romance comics for teenage girls. Characterized by a very dense visual style, featuring flowery backgrounds and big-eyed, androgynous boys and girls, it is an extremely popular and prominent genre in Japan. Why is this genre so appealing? Where did it come from? Why do so many of the stories feature androgynous characters and homosexual romance? Passionate Frien...(展开全部)

H.C.罗宾斯·兰登（H.C. Robbins Landon），音乐学家、历史学家、记者、电台主播，定期为音乐类报刊、杂志撰文，也曾在欧美大学中任教。他专注于海顿与莫扎特研究，出版了五卷本《海顿：年表与作品》，以及《1791，莫扎特的最后一年》《莫扎特：黄金年代》《莫扎特与维也纳》等著作。

杰克·弗莱姆，纽约城市大学荣誉教授，研究方向为19～20世纪的艺术史。他曾撰写大量书籍和艺术评论，并广泛地在世界各地的博物馆和大学举办艺术史方面的讲座。他的著作Matisse：The Manand HisArt，1869—1918荣获1986年普利策奖人物传记类的提名。1984年至1992年，他担任《华尔街日报》艺术评论员。

The most influential of contemporary philosophers explores the idea of friendship and its political consequences, past and future.

The most influential of contemporary philosophers explores the idea of friendship and its political consequences, past and future.

金•斯坦利•罗宾森：著名科幻小说家、哲学博士，两届雨果奖，一届星云奖、世界奇幻奖和约翰•坎贝尔奖的获得者，先后六次摘得轨迹奖，著有长篇科幻小说：《红火星》、《绿火星》、《蓝火星》等。

With the incomparable vision and breathtaking detail that brought his now-classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author KIM STANLEY ROBINSON boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years. In his grandest work yet, the acclaimed storyteller constructs a world vastly different from the one we know.... The Years of Rice and Salt It is the fou...(展开全部)