Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world...(展开全部)

Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world...(展开全部)

舍伍德•安德森（Sherwood Anderson,1876——1941年），美国现代文学史上最伟大的作家之一。他出身贫寒，早早离家谋生，后来成为了一名成功的企业主。却在鼎盛时期突然一夜间抛弃了名利和家庭，以一种近似癫狂的偏执走上了孤独的创作之路。 他是美国第一位成熟的现代意义上的小说家，被誉为是“美国现代文学的先驱者”。他的作品深刻地影响了海明威、福克纳、菲茨杰拉德、斯坦贝克、考德威尔等一系列的大师级作家，是美国文学史上著名的“迷惘的一代”的先辈人物。 海明威称他为“我们所有人的老师”，而福克纳称他为“我们这一代作家的父亲”。是他发掘并出版了海明威、福克纳的首部作品，并引领他们进入了主流文学界，可以说他是大师的老师。

舍伍德•安德森（Sherwood Anderson,1876——1941年），美国现代文学史上最伟大的作家之一。他出身贫寒，早早离家谋生，后来成为了一名成功的企业主。却在鼎盛时期突然一夜间抛弃了名利和家庭，以一种近似癫狂的偏执走上了孤独的创作之路。 他是美国第一位成熟的现代意义上的小说家，被誉为是“美国现代文学的先驱者”。他的作品深刻地影响了海明威、福克纳、菲茨杰拉德、斯坦贝克、考德威尔等一系列的大师级作家，是美国文学史上著名的“迷惘的一代”的先辈人物。 海明威称他为“我们所有人的老师”，而福克纳称他为“我们这一代作家的父亲”。是他发掘并出版了海明威、福克纳的首部作品，并引领他们进入了主流文学界，可以说他是大师的老师。

Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation - and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting

Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation - and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting

Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reorder...(展开全部)

When James Wood's first collection of essays, The Broken Estate, was published in 1999, the reviewers hailed a master critic. John Banville described Wood as a 'a close reader of genius-illuminating and exciting and compelling', and Malcolm Bradbury described him as 'a true critic: an urgent, impassioned reader of literature, a tireless interpreter, a live and learned intellige...(展开全部)

"James Wood has been called our best young critic. This is not true. He is our best critic; he thinks with a sublime ferocity."--Cynthia Ozick Following the collection "The Broken Estate"--which established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation--"The Irresponsible Self" confirms Wood's preeminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of contem...(展开全部)

"James Wood has been called our best young critic. This is not true. He is our best critic; he thinks with a sublime ferocity."--Cynthia Ozick Following the collection "The Broken Estate"--which established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation--"The Irresponsible Self" confirms Wood's preeminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of contem...(展开全部)