Felipe and Iquela, two young friends living in modern day Santiago, are plagued by the legacy of Chile’s dictatorship. Felipe prowls the streets counting dead bodies real and imagined, aspiring to a perfect number that might offer closure. Iquela and Paloma, an old acquaintance from Iquela’s childhood, search for a way to reconcile their fragile lives with their parents’ violen...(展开全部)

Santiago, Chile. The city is covered in ash. Three children of ex-militants are facing a past they can neither remember nor forget. Felipe sees dead bodies on every corner of the city, counting them up in an obsessive quest to square these figures with the official death toll. He is searching for the perfect zero, a life with no remainder. Iquela and Paloma, too, are searching ...(展开全部)

汤姆•麦卡锡（1969—），英国作家、概念艺术家。2005年出版小说《记忆残留》后一跃成为当代英国小说界最重要、最令人期待的原创作家之一，被誉为“后现代文学的继承人”。同时，作为国际灵航协会（International Necronautical Society，简称INS）的协作创始人，麦卡锡始终关注艺术和社会中的非本真性，以及重复或复制的首要性和原创性，并一再将这两个命题运用到他的小说中。他的写作手法精巧、复杂，充满实验性和先锋性，旨在打破传统的文字美学，却丝毫无损阅读的乐趣。

A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it. Then, one night, an ordinary sight sets off a series of bizarre visions he can’t quite place. How he goes about bringing his visions to life–and what happens afterward–makes for one of the most riveting, complex, and unusual novels in recen...(展开全部)

Book Description Publication Date: February 13, 2007 A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it. Then, one night, an ordinary sight sets off a series of bizarre visions he can’t quite place. How he goes about bringing his visions to life–and what happens afterward–makes for one of the ...(展开全部)

Book Description Publication Date: February 13, 2007 A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it. Then, one night, an ordinary sight sets off a series of bizarre visions he can’t quite place. How he goes about bringing his visions to life–and what happens afterward–makes for one of the ...(展开全部)

The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius De rerum natura through Capital to the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. Schelling s Weltalter drafts belong to this same series, with their repeated attempt at the formulation of the beginning of the world, of the passage from...(展开全部)

The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius De rerum natura through Capital to the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. Schelling s Weltalter drafts belong to this same series, with their repeated attempt at the formulation of the beginning of the world, of the passage from...(展开全部)

威尔·杜兰特(Will Durant),（1885——1981）美国著名学者，普利策奖（1968）和自由勋章（1977）获得者。他用50年时间完成了受到广泛好评的《世界文明史》（11卷本，后几卷是他和妻子阿拉尔合作的结晶）。92岁时，创作了《历史上的英雄》，这是他辉煌一生的最后作品。他的《哲学故事》旨在让更多的人了解哲学。他终生热情的致力于将哲学从学术象牙塔中解放出来，让它进入普通人的生活。

きっ和、それらはぜんぶここにあるべきも的たち。完璧なバランス、そしてすぐにこわされるも的。