When The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man first appeared in 1956, the movies and the moviegoing experience were generally not regarded as worthy of serious scholarly consideration. Yet, French critic and social theorist Edgar Morin perceived in the cinema a complex phenomenon capable of illuminating fundamental truths about thought, imagination, and human nature - which allowed him...(展开全部)

When The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man first appeared in 1956, the movies and the moviegoing experience were generally not regarded as worthy of serious scholarly consideration. Yet, French critic and social theorist Edgar Morin perceived in the cinema a complex phenomenon capable of illuminating fundamental truths about thought, imagination, and human nature - which allowed him...(展开全部)

The Book of Imaginary Beings is Borges’s whimsical compendium of more than one hundred of the "strange creatures conceived down through history by the human imagination." This unique contribution to fantasy literature ranges widely across the world’s mythologies and literatures to bring together the fantastical inventions drawn from the Kabbalah, Homer, Confucius,...(展开全部)

The Book of Imaginary Beings is Borges’s whimsical compendium of more than one hundred of the "strange creatures conceived down through history by the human imagination." This unique contribution to fantasy literature ranges widely across the world’s mythologies and literatures to bring together the fantastical inventions drawn from the Kabbalah, Homer, Confucius,...(展开全部)

A.曼古埃尔 (Alberto Manguel)，翻译家、编辑和散文家，著有包括《阅读史》(A History of Reading) 在内的十余部畅销书。 G.盖德鲁培 (Gianni Guadalupi)，翻译家，译有多部意大利语经典著作，编过数本文集，同时也是一位激情满怀的藏书家。 译者 赵蓉，毕业于四川外国语大学研究生院，主要研究方向为英美文化与文学，现任西南交通大学外国语学院翻译系讲师，译有阿鲁里斯的《莎士比亚的政治盛典》和曼古埃尔的《想象地名》；合译有《古典诗文绎读现代编》和《荷马笔下的伦理》。

*Winner of the 2010 Nebula Award for Best Novel* In this Time Magazine top 10 book of the year, Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko. Emiko is the ...(展开全部)

*Winner of the 2010 Nebula Award for Best Novel* In this Time Magazine top 10 book of the year, Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko. Emiko is the ...(展开全部)

欢迎来到卡牌为主的大陆——易录社大陆

斯塔尼斯瓦夫·莱姆（Stanisław Lem，1921－2006） 波兰著名科幻作家、哲学家，被誉为“科幻界的博尔赫斯”，《纽约时报》曾称他“值得一座诺贝尔文学奖”。迄今，莱姆作品已被翻译成50多种语言，在世界范围内畅销超4500万册。 莱姆以博学闻名于世，他智商高达180，通晓英、法、德等7国语言，医学、生物学、数学、哲学、语言学……信手拈来，无所不知。 莱姆的风格怪诞，热衷于用后现代实验拓展文学边界，痴迷于探索超前时代的科幻主题：技术的本质、人类与外星智慧的沟通困境、对人类局限性的绝望、人类在宇宙中的地位……他的作品超越了科幻的思维，直抵哲学的深度，甚至被列为哲学系学生的教材。 莱姆的《索拉里斯星》《未来学大会》多次被搬上大银幕，他的作品启发了《黑客帝国》中的“红、蓝药丸”概念，更影响了刘慈欣、道格拉斯·亚当斯等一大批科幻作家。 2021年为莱...(展开全部)

These wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first-century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create "pornograms," and analyzing computer-generated literature through the science of "bitistics." "Lem, a science fiction Bach, plays in this book a googleplex of variations on his basic themes" (New York Times Book Review). Translated ...(展开全部)