Lost in the Funhouse is a collection of loosely connected short stories that was originally published by John Barth in 1968. These postmodern stories examine the art of fiction writing, among other things, and seem to undermine the conventional and predictable nature of fiction. In the fourteen stories, Barth presents a literary "funhouse," a dense maze that weaves in and out o...(展开全部)

Lost in the Funhouse is a collection of loosely connected short stories that was originally published by John Barth in 1968. These postmodern stories examine the art of fiction writing, among other things, and seem to undermine the conventional and predictable nature of fiction. In the fourteen stories, Barth presents a literary "funhouse," a dense maze that weaves in and out o...(展开全部)

Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction. Though many of the stories gathered here were published separately, there are several themes common to them all, giving them new meaning in the context of this collection.

The history of art from the early nineteenth century onward is commonly viewed as a succession of conflicts between innovatory and established styles that culminated in the formalism and aesthetic autonomy of high modernism. In "Art and Crisis", first published in 1948, Hans Sedlmayr argues that the aesthetic disjunctures of modern art signify more than matters of style and poi...(展开全部)

• How many smells are there? And how many molecules would it take to create every smell in nature, from roses to stinky feet? • Who was the bigger scent freak: the perfume-obsessed Richard Wagner or Emily Dickinson, with her creepy passion for flowers? • By scenting the air in stores, are retailers turning us into subliminally controlled shopping zombies? • Were Smell-O-Vision ...(展开全部)

誰可以相信？誰不能相信？ 下一秒，朋友就可能變成敵人…… 四段故事，七位間諜，爾虞我詐的心理戰，德日英法的權力之爭，「魔王」結城中校撒下布局全球的情報蜘蛛網，菁英聚集的「D機關」縝密牽動世界局勢，四場日本間諜ＶＳ世界陰謀的殊死戰！ 〈誤算〉．德國 ——死是最壞的選擇，活下去，活著歸來報告。 他是D機關的間諜，赴德執行調查任務，然而，他受傷、忘記一切…… 德國納粹的腳步就在門外，他可以回到歸屬之地，還是終將承認失敗？ 〈失樂園〉．新加坡 ——這宛如樂園的美景，明天該不會就不在了吧？ 新加坡，搖搖欲墜的東方明珠，日英鬥爭的擂台。英國企業家之死，表面上是意外，檯面下是暗潮洶湧的政治算計。美國青年不顧一切，試圖洗清戀人的罪行；日本間諜易容換裝，策動顛覆英國勢力的計畫。 愛情和愛國，哪一方的「樂園」可以在最後殘存下來？ 〈追跡〉．日本 ——有崎 晃，就是結城中...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic—part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work—that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history.

'A gripping detective story, a stirring epic, a tale of ghosts and dark marvels, a thrilling display of scholarship, a meditation on the unfathomable mystery of good and evil, "The Lost" is as complex and rich with meaning and story as the past it seeks to illuminate. A beautiful book, beautifully written.' Michael Chabon 'The Lost' is the story of an odyssey in search of six ...(展开全部)