Bruno Cadogan, a doctoral student in Spanish Literature at New York University, is making little progress on his dissertation, a study of Jorge Luis Borges's essays on the tango. As he wanders through the Village, a chance encounter with a specialist in Latin American culture launches him in a new direction: she suggests that he go to Buenos Aires in pursuit of the elusive tang...(展开全部)

This 40th anniversary edition of Albert Lord's classic work includes a CD containing the original audio recording of all the passages of heroic songs quoted in the book; a video publication of the kinescopic filming of the most valued of the singers; and selected photographs taken during Milman Parry's collecting trips in the Balkans. Parry began recording and studying a live t...(展开全部)

别尔嘉耶夫（1874-1948），具有世界影响的俄罗斯宗教哲学家，思想涉及哲学、宗教、文学、政治、人类学和伦理学等领域，被誉为“二十世纪的黑格尔”，“现代最伟大的哲学家和预言家之一”， 俄国给予世界思想界的“第四件礼物”。著述等身，《自由的哲学》、《历史的意义》、《创造的意义》、《人的使命》、《人的奴役与自由》、《俄罗斯思想》等都是其重要著作；以陀思妥耶夫斯基为主要思想源泉，创造了“自由基督教”哲学。1922年被苏俄当局驱逐，先到柏林，后定居巴黎近郊的克拉玛尔，死后葬于克拉玛尔公墓。

别尔嘉耶夫（1874-1948），具有世界影响的俄罗斯宗教哲学家，思想涉及哲学、宗教、文学、政治、人类学和伦理学等领域，被誉为“二十世纪的黑格尔”，“现代最伟大的哲学家和预言家之一”， 俄国给予世界思想界的“第四件礼物”。著述等身，《自由的哲学》、《历史的意义》、《创造的意义》、《人的使命》、《人的奴役与自由》、《俄罗斯思想》等都是其重要著作；以陀思妥耶夫斯基为主要思想源泉，创造了“自由基督教”哲学。1922年被苏俄当局驱逐，先到柏林，后定居巴黎近郊的克拉玛尔，死后葬于克拉玛尔公墓。

"The Little Russian" spotlights an exciting new voice in historical fiction, an assured debut that should appeal to readers of "Away" by Amy Bloom or "Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier. The novel tells the story of Berta Alshonsky, who revels in childhood memories of her time spent with a wealthy family in Moscow -a life filled with salons, balls and all the trappings of the up...(展开全部)

Joseph Frank's continuing biography of Dostoevsky is by now recognized as one of the major achievements of this century in this form, and perhaps the best work on the author in any language. During the course of this long-range effort, Frank has also produced articles, introductions, and occasional pieces that arise from his acute awareness of how Western ideas are changed, tra...(展开全部)

托瑪斯．埃羅伊．馬汀尼茲（Tomas Eloy Martinez） 1934出生於阿根廷，是一位新聞工作者、教授和得獎小說家，在阿根廷高壓統治時避居委內瑞拉，1982年起在美國工作與居住。他是當今拉丁美洲文學兩部經典名著《裴隆小說》（La novela de Peron, 1985）和《聖艾薇塔》（Santa Evita, 1995）的作者，該作品已被譯成三十六種語言，於七十多個國家發行。2002年，馬汀尼茲的作品El vuelo de la reina在西班牙馬德里獲得Alfaguara Prize。他的上一本小說Santa Evita曾獲2005國際曼布克獎提名。 目前定居美國，任教於紐澤西州的羅格斯大學，擔任該校拉丁美洲研究課程主任。

First published in 1960, Albert B. Lord’s The Singer of Tales remains the fundamental study of the distinctive techniques and aesthetics of oral epic poetry. Based upon pathbreaking fieldwork conducted in the 1930s and 1950s among oral epic singers of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia, Lord analyzes in impressive detail the techniques of oral composition in performance. He explores t...(展开全部)

"This is the first comprehensive account of Nabokov's life and oeuvre. The book's wide-ranging research and deep affinity for Nabokov's writings should establish it as the single indispensable source on its subject for many decades to come."--Simon Karlinsky, University of California, Berkeley This first major critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest of twent...(展开全部)

During the first two months of 1917 Russia was still a Romanov monarchy. Eight months later the Bolsheviks stood at the helm. They were little known to anybody when the year began, and their leaders were still under indictment for state treason when they came to power. You will not find another such sharp turn in history especially if you remember that it involves a nation of 1...(展开全部)