A curated collection of some of the most powerful and awe-inspiring Brutalist architecture ever built This Brutal World is a global survey of this compelling and much-admired style of architecture. It brings to light virtually unknown Brutalist architectural treasures from across the former eastern bloc and other far flung parts of the world. It includes works by some of the be...(展开全部)

The Kingdom of this World (Spanish: El Reino de este Mundo) is a novel by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier, first published in 1949. It tells the story of Haiti before, during, and after the Haitian Revolution. It is an important work in the development of magical realism.

阿莱霍·卡彭铁尔（1904—1980），古巴著名小说家、新闻记者、音乐理论家、文学批评家、外交官，拉丁美洲文坛巨匠，“文学爆炸”的先驱。他在《人间王国》的序言中首次提出“神奇现实”的概念，将超现实主义和本地化融为一体，全面地反映了拉美大陆的现状，对拉美文学的发展起到了巨大的推动作用，被马尔克斯、富恩特斯、略萨等一批大师尊为拉丁美洲小说的先行者。文学之外，他在历史、哲学、音乐、建筑、绘画等方面皆有颇高造诣，是一位难得的百科全书式作家。 1927年，卡彭铁尔因反对当时的古巴独裁统治而被捕，在短暂的坐牢期间开始写作第一部长篇小说《埃古-扬巴-奥》。1959年古巴革命胜利，卡彭铁尔结束流亡回到国内，成为古巴文学艺术界的领军人物。他创作的作品包括长篇小说《人间王国》《光明世纪》《消逝的足迹》，短篇小说集《时间之战》以及几部音乐、文学评论集等。由于他在文学事业上...(展开全部)

阿莱霍·卡彭铁尔（1904—1980），古巴著名小说家、新闻记者、音乐理论家、文学批评家、外交官，拉丁美洲文坛巨匠，“文学爆炸”的先驱。他在《人间王国》的序言中首次提出“神奇现实”的概念，将超现实主义和本地化融为一体，全面地反映了拉美大陆的现状，对拉美文学的发展起到了巨大的推动作用，被马尔克斯、富恩特斯、略萨等一批大师尊为拉丁美洲小说的先行者。文学之外，他在历史、哲学、音乐、建筑、绘画等方面皆有颇高造诣，是一位难得的百科全书式作家。 1927年，卡彭铁尔因反对当时的古巴独裁统治而被捕，在短暂的坐牢期间开始写作第一部长篇小说《埃古-扬巴-奥》。1959年古巴革命胜利，卡彭铁尔结束流亡回到国内，成为古巴文学艺术界的领军人物。他创作的作品包括长篇小说《人间王国》《光明世纪》《消逝的足迹》，短篇小说集《时间之战》以及几部音乐、文学评论集等。由于他在文学事业上...(展开全部)

The Kingdom of this World (Spanish: El Reino de este Mundo) is a novel by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier, first published in 1949. It tells the story of Haiti before, during, and after the Haitian Revolution. It is an important work in the development of magical realism.

The pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about our place in the world: the many ways humans rely on one another, how we vitally and sometimes fatally breathe the same air, share the surfaces of the earth, and exist in proximity to other porous creatures in order to live in a social world. What we require to live can also imperil our lives. How do we think from, and ...(展开全部)

The pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about our place in the world: the many ways humans rely on one another, how we vitally and sometimes fatally breathe the same air, share the surfaces of the earth, and exist in proximity to other porous creatures in order to live in a social world. What we require to live can also imperil our lives. How do we think from, and ...(展开全部)

"That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf," Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular but least understood of Latin American writers. Now, after years of research on three continents, drawing on previously unknown manuscripts and dozens of interviews, Benjamin Moser demonstrates how Lispector's development as a writer was directly conne...(展开全部)

An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honor. 'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now completely deprived of oxygen. But they did not shut down. Not right away...' For Leil...(展开全部)