The Weather in Proust gathers pieces written by the eminent critic and theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in the last decade of her life, as she worked toward a book on Proust. This book takes its title from the first essay, a startlingly original interpretation of Proust. By way of Neo-platonism, Buddhism, and the work of Melanie Klein, Sedgwick establishes the sense of refreshmen...(展开全部)

The acclaimed Proust biographer William C. Carter portrays Proust’s amorous adventures and misadventures from adolescence through his adult years, supplying where appropriate Proust’s own sensitive, intelligent, and often disillusioned observations about love and sexuality. Proust is revealed as a man agonizingly caught between the constant fear of public exposure as a homosexu...(展开全部)

Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, the pair continue to meet occasionally to share food and drink sake, and as the seasons pass - from spring cherry blossom to autumnal...(展开全部)

玛丽安娜•沃尔夫（Maryanne Wolf） ★美国塔夫茨大学儿童发展心理学教授，阅读与语言研究中心主任。 ★曾获富布莱特奖，并因出色的教学和科研工作，获得美国心理学会、美国国家儿童健康与人类发展研究所以及国际阅读障碍者协会颁发的奖项。 ★《普鲁斯特与乌贼》获得玛格•梅尔克年度最佳阅读图书奖。 ★《华盛顿邮报》称赞她“说的任何事都具有一定的意义，她还真正预言了计算机文化对‘阅读思维’的影响”。

玛丽安娜•沃尔夫（Maryanne Wolf） ★美国塔夫茨大学儿童发展心理学教授，阅读与语言研究中心主任。 ★曾获富布莱特奖，并因出色的教学和科研工作，获得美国心理学会、美国国家儿童健康与人类发展研究所以及国际阅读障碍者协会颁发的奖项。 ★《普鲁斯特与乌贼》获得玛格•梅尔克年度最佳阅读图书奖。 ★《华盛顿邮报》称赞她“说的任何事都具有一定的意义，她还真正预言了计算机文化对‘阅读思维’的影响”。

In the age of Trump and Brexit, every crisis is instantly overridden by the next. The turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century generates anxiety and makes it difficult to know how to react. Olivia Laing makes a brilliant, inspiring case for why art matters more than ever, as a force of both resistance and repair. Art, she argues, changes how we see the world. It ...(展开全部)

萨缪尔·贝克特（Samuel Beckett），1906年4月13日生于都柏林南郊的福克斯罗克，1989年12月22日逝于巴黎。侨居法国的爱尔兰小说家、戏剧家、诗人，同时用英文和法文进行创作，1969年因其作品“以新的小说和戏剧的形式从现代人的窘困中获得崇高”而荣膺诺贝尔文学奖。 陈俊松，上海外国语大学文学博士，现为复旦大学外国语言文学在站博士后、华东师范大学英语系副教授。主要从事美国文学、叙事学、文化记忆理论、比较文学等方面的研究。著有英文专著《当代美国编史性元小说中的政治介入》（南开大学出版社，2013），译有《天使埃斯梅拉达：九个故事》（译林出版社，2015），参编《美国文学大辞典》（商务印书馆，2015）。