Technology never works well the first time. Or even the second. Army veteran John Reiff is living proof. John is revived in the back of a dilapidated ambulance, on the run from a shadowy organization that is desperate to take him back. He is the first one, their archetype, and they need to know what happened after his escape. What is happening to his body and his mind. And they...(展开全部)

An immediate success, it became an acknowledged watershed in Brazilian literature, catapulting it into the literary arena of European modernism.

Clarice Lispector's sensational， prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was just twenty-three and earned her the name 'Hurricane Clarice'. It tells the story of Joana， from her wild， creative childhood， as the 'little egg' who writes poems for her father， through her marriage to the faithless Otávio and on to her decision to make her own way in ...(展开全部)

An immediate success, it became an acknowledged watershed in Brazilian literature, catapulting it into the literary arena of European modernism.

Clarice Lispector's sensational， prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was just twenty-three and earned her the name 'Hurricane Clarice'. It tells the story of Joana， from her wild， creative childhood， as the 'little egg' who writes poems for her father， through her marriage to the faithless Otávio and on to her decision to make her own way in ...(展开全部)

This book is a collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol, written from 1831-1832. They appeared in various magazines and were published in book form when Gogol, who had spent his life in today's Ukraine up to the age of nineteen, was twenty-two. He put his early impressions and memories of childhood into these pictures of peasant life. In a series of letters to his mother, h...(展开全部)

This book is a collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol, written from 1831-1832. They appeared in various magazines and were published in book form when Gogol, who had spent his life in today's Ukraine up to the age of nineteen, was twenty-two. He put his early impressions and memories of childhood into these pictures of peasant life. In a series of letters to his mother, h...(展开全部)

In "The Future of the Image", Jacques Ranciere develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, and thinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard and Greenberg, Ranciere argues that contemporary theorists of the image are suffering from ...(展开全部)