【作者】 莉奥诺拉·卡林顿（Leonora Carrington，1917—2011），墨西哥艺术家、作家，超现实主义运动的重要代表人物。1917年，卡林顿出生于一个富裕的英国家庭，少女时代先后被两所修道院学校开除；1937年，与超现实主义艺术家马克斯·恩斯特私奔，成为巴黎艺术圈的宠儿；1940年，恩斯特遭纳粹逮捕，卡林顿精神濒临崩溃，被送往精神病院；从医院逃走后，卡林顿辗转去了美国和墨西哥，继续从事艺术创作，直至去世。 【译者】 付裕，南京大学英美文学硕士。译有《伍迪·艾伦谈话录》（合译）《约瑟夫·康拉德传》等。

Leonora Carrington (1917–2011), the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter who made her home in Mexico City, was also a writer of extraordinary imagination and charm, and The Hearing Trumpet is perhaps her best loved book. It tells the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that her family has been plotting to h...(展开全部)

The Hearing Trumpet is the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that what her family is saying is that she is to be committed to an institution. But this is an institution where the buildings are shaped like birthday cakes and igloos, where the Winking Abbess and the Queen Bee reign, and where the gateway to the unde...(展开全部)

Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory key to her anarchic and allusive body of work. The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a Mexican city and ends with a man-made apocalypse that promises to usher in the earth’s rebirth. In between we are ...(展开全部)

<CENTER> Swan Song</P></CENTER> Like the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike his four brothers and sisters, Louis can't trumpet joyfully. In fact, he can't even make a sound. And since he can't trumpet his love, the beautiful swan Serena pays absolutely no attention to him.</P> Louis tries everything he can think of to win Serena's affection -- he even ...(展开全部)

<CENTER> Swan Song</P></CENTER> Like the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike his four brothers and sisters, Louis can't trumpet joyfully. In fact, he can't even make a sound. And since he can't trumpet his love, the beautiful swan Serena pays absolutely no attention to him.</P> Louis tries everything he can think of to win Serena's affection -- he even ...(展开全部)

The story of Ben is fiction, but it could be the story of more than one jazz musician who grew up in the twenties. Using the art-deco style of the period, Rachel Isadora not only captures the poignancy and yearning of a youthful talent, but in page after page of striking art seems to convey the very sound of music.

塞思·霍罗威茨（Seth Horowitz），任教于美国布朗大学神经科学和心理学系，开设有动物行为学、神经行为学、大脑发育学、听觉生物学和音乐思维等课程。他在人类听觉、平衡和睡眠研究方面的工作得到了美国的国家卫生研究院、国家科学基金会和国家航空航天局的资助。同时，他还是NeuroPop公司的联合创始人及首席神经科学家，致力于将基础研究应用于真实世界。

塞思·霍罗威茨（Seth Horowitz），任教于美国布朗大学神经科学和心理学系，开设有动物行为学、神经行为学、大脑发育学、听觉生物学和音乐思维等课程。他在人类听觉、平衡和睡眠研究方面的工作得到了美国的国家卫生研究院、国家科学基金会和国家航空航天局的资助。同时，他还是NeuroPop公司的联合创始人及首席神经科学家，致力于将基础研究应用于真实世界。

Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality argues that the modern cultural practices of hearing and testing have emerged from a long interrelationship. Since the early nineteenth century, auditory test tools (whether organ pipes or electronic tone generators) and the results of hearing tests have fed back into instrument calibration, human training, architecture, and the cr...(展开全部)