Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels. -- Milan Kundera Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially pe...(展开全部)

埃拉·伯绍德 Ella Berthoud，五岁时从德黑兰去往伦敦，旅途中靠在一辆Wolsey 1300的包裹架上开始阅读生涯。此后十三年间在各种不合时宜的地方读过书，比如在滑雪缆车和蹦床上。进入剑桥大学就读英国文学专业之后，她更是全身心地投入到了小说阅读中。 苏珊·埃尔德金 Susan Elderkin，2003年被《格兰塔》(Granta) 评选为二十位最杰出的年轻英国小说家之一。现从事小说写作，著有《日落巧克力山脉》(入围柑橘奖决选名单)，以及《声音》(入围国际IMPAC都柏林文学奖长名单)，同时教授写作、撰写书评。 两位作者二十五年前同为剑桥大学英文系同学，上学时她们便给彼此推荐各类小说，并相互交换，结下了深厚的友谊，同时积累了大量的阅读。两人在阿兰·德波顿开办的“人生学校”负责书目治疗，为全世界客户开书目处方，经过五年“临床治疗”的累积，才有...(展开全部)

Georg Lukács (1885–1971) is now recognized as one of the most innovative and best-informed literary critics of the twentieth century. Trained in the German philosophic tradition of Kant, Hegel, and Marx, he escaped Nazi persecution by fleeing to the Soviet Union in 1933. There he faced a new set of problems: Stalinist dogmatism about literature and literary criticism. Maneuveri...(展开全部)

Georg Lukács’s works include The Theory of the Novel (1920), The History of Class Consciousness (1923), Studies in European Realism (1948), and The Young Hegel (revised edition, 1954). Fredric Jameson is William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature, Director of the Graduate Program in Literature, and Director of the Duke Center for Critical Theory at Duke University. He ...(展开全部)

For a century, the history of the novel has been written in terms of nations and territories: the English novel, the French novel, the American novel. But what if novels were viewed in terms of the seas that unite these different lands? Examining works across two centuries, "The Novel and the Sea" recounts the novel's rise, told from the perspective of the ship's deck and the a...(展开全部)

For a century, the history of the novel has been written in terms of nations and territories: the English novel, the French novel, the American novel. But what if novels were viewed in terms of the seas that unite these different lands? Examining works across two centuries, "The Novel and the Sea" recounts the novel's rise, told from the perspective of the ship's deck and the a...(展开全部)

Georg Lukacs wrote The Theory of the Novel in 1914-1915, a period that also saw the conception of Rosa Luxemburg's Spartacus Letters, Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Spengler's Decline of the West, and Ernst Bloch's Spirit of Utopia. Like many of Lukacs's early essays, it is a radical critique of bourgeois culture and stems from a specific Central European...(展开全部)