【作者简介】 普里莫·莱维（Primo Levi） 意大利犹太人，作家，化学家，奥斯维辛174517号囚犯。 1919年，莱维出生于意大利都灵；1943年，他因参与反法西斯运动被捕，后被遣送至集中营。战争结束后，他回到故乡都灵生活。在此后的人生中，他从事工业化学这一行当30年，同时作为一位作家，写作了“奥斯维辛三部曲”（《这是不是个人》《休战》《被淹没与被拯救的》），以及其他建基于其化学家身份和大屠杀幸存者经历的小说、散文和诗歌作品。1987年4月11日，莱维从他出生的房子坠落身亡。 作为奥斯维辛最重要的记录者和见证人，莱维的文字具有一种与其他受难者不同的特质，他秉持一种化学家的冷静与节制书写记忆，同时，又如菲利普·罗斯所说，“本该充满悼念情绪和无尽的绝望，反而充满活力”。他的文字，让人们更理性地思考人性。 ··· 【译者简介】 索马里 曾供职于《G...(展开全部)

关于作者 罗兰•巴尔特，法国著名结构主义文学理论家与文化评论家。其一生经历可以大致划分为三个阶段： 媒体文化评论期(1947—1962)、高等研究实践学院教学期(1962—1976)， 以及法兰西学院讲座教授期(1976—1980)。 他和存在主义大师萨特在第二次世界大战后法国文学思想界前后辉映， 被公认为蒙田以来法国最杰出的散文大家之一。 关于译者 怀宇，本名张智庭，南开大学外国语学院法语教授、法国符号学研究者和译者。1993-1998年在我国驻法国大使馆担任商务一等秘书。已翻译出版法国文学和符号学著述30余种。法国政府“教育骑士”勋章获得者（2002），中国作家协会会员。天津外国语大学语言符号应用传播研究中心专职研究员，符号学专业刊物《符号与传媒》顾问和《语言与符号》编委。

In the years between her first public lecture in 1961 and her last in 1981, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as different as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. These pieces, collected here, reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity.

He was the greatest tenor of his day and probably of all time. Trained naturally in singing Neapolitan ballads, Enrico Caruso (1873–1921) achieved a vocal quality often described as "celestial" or "golden." His breath control was such that he could deliver the longest phrase without any suggestion of difficulty, while his superb enunciation and an intense quality of pathos in h...(展开全部)

Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1969. On a hot January evening that he will remember for decades, Elias Cole first catches sight of Saffia Kamara, the wife of a charismatic colleague. He is transfixed. Thirty years later, lying in the capital's hospital, he recalls the desire that drove him to acts of betrayal he has tried to justify ever since. Elsewhere in the hospital, Kai, a gift...(展开全部)

Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1969. On a hot January evening that he will remember for decades, Elias Cole first catches sight of Saffia Kamara, the wife of a charismatic colleague. He is transfixed. Thirty years later, lying in the capital's hospital, he recalls the desire that drove him to acts of betrayal he has tried to justify ever since. Elsewhere in the hospital, Kai, a gift...(展开全部)

阿敏娜妲·芙娜（Aminatta Forna），生于苏格兰，长于西非，现居伦敦。2007年，被《名利场》评为非洲最重要的新作家之一。 其处女作《在水面跳舞的恶魔》（The Devil That Danced on the Water）获得2003年萨缪尔·约翰逊奖决选，《祖先石》（Ancestor Stones）获得2008年项豪斯顿·莱特遗产奖、都柏林文学奖的提名，及被《华盛顿时报》列为2006年最有影响力的文学作品。 阿敏娜妲也为杂志、报纸、广播和电视写稿，撰写了一部关于非洲历史与艺术的电视纪录片。

High above the planet Harmony. the Oversoul watches Its task. programmed so many millennia ago. is to guard the human settlement on this planet-. -to protect this fragile remnant of Earth from all threats. To protect them. most of all. from themselves. The Oversoul has done its job well. There is no war on Harmony. There are no weapons of mass destruction. There is no technolog...(展开全部)

The ancient Greeks, to whom a trained memory was of vital importance - as it was to everyone before the invention of printing - created an elaborate memory system, based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind. Inherited and recorded by the Romans, this art of memory passed into the European tradition, to be revived, in occult form, at the Renaissance, an...(展开全部)

One of Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century In this classic study of how people learned to retain vast stores of knowledge before the invention of the printed page, Frances A. Yates traces the art of memory from its treatment by Greek orators, through its Gothic transformations in the Middle Ages, to the occult forms it took in the Renaissance, a...(展开全部)