作者介绍：博胡米尔·赫拉巴尔 二十世纪最重要的捷克作家之一。生于一九一四年，法学博士，服过兵役，当过推销员、仓管员、炼钢工，等等。一九九七年死于意外。他历经和见证了二十世纪捷克历史的跌宕起伏，四十九岁时才得以出版第一部作品，一生创作无数，获得国内外奖项多达三十多个。他的作品经常被改编为电影和戏剧，与小说同名的电影《严密监视的列车》于一九六六年获奥斯卡最佳外语片奖；《我曾侍候过英国国王》于二〇一二年获得捷克国家电影奖“捷克狮”奖最佳影片、最佳导演等四项大奖。其他代表作品有《雪绒花的庆典》《温柔的野蛮人》《过于喧嚣的孤独》等。 译者简介：李晖，安徽宣城人。北京大学翻译研究博士，现任教于北京语言大学外国语学部高级翻译学院。主要研究方向为小说理论与翻译研究、现代主义以来中国古典文学的外译传播、中西寓意叙事比较。译作有《美学·图画通识丛书》、《卢浮宫藏品...(展开全部)

When the complete "Letters of Emily Dickinson" appeared in three volumes in 1958, Robert Kirsch welcomed them in the "Los Angeles Times," saying "The missives offer access to the mind and heart of one of America's most intriguing literary personalities." This one-volume selection is at last available in paper-back. It provides crucial texts for the appreciation of America liter...(展开全部)

Arthur Rimbaud was one of the wildest, most uncompromising poets of his age, although his brief literary career was over by the time he was twenty-one when he embarked on a new life as a trader in Africa. This edition brings together his extraordinary poetry and more than a hundred of his letters, most of them written after he had abandoned literature. A master of French ver...(展开全部)

When the complete "Letters of Emily Dickinson" appeared in three volumes in 1958, Robert Kirsch welcomed them in the "Los Angeles Times," saying "The missives offer access to the mind and heart of one of America's most intriguing literary personalities." This one-volume selection is at last available in paper-back. It provides crucial texts for the appreciation of America liter...(展开全部)

Franz Kafka first met Felice Bauer in August 1912, at the home of his friend Max Brod. The twenty-five-year-old career woman from Berlin—energetic, down-to-earth, life-affirming—awakened in him a desire to marry. Kafka wrote to Felice almost daily, sometimes even twice a day. Because he was living in Prague and she in Berlin, their letters became their sole source of knowledge ...(展开全部)

No American poet has so swiftly and decisively transformed the course of poetry as Hart Crane. In his haunted, brief life, Crane fashioned a distinctively modern idiom that fused the ornate rhetoric of the Elizabethans, the ecstatic enigmas of Rimbaud, and the prophetic utterances and cosmic sympathy of Whitman, in a quest for wholeness and healing in what he called "the broken...(展开全部)

No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov’s to Véra Slonim. She shared his delight at the enchantment of life’s trifles and literature’s treasures, and he rated her as having the best and quickest sense of humor of any woman he had met. From their first encounter in 1923, Vladimir’s letters to Véra chronicle a half-century...(展开全部)

The letters of the great writer to his wife—gathered here for the first time—chronicle a decades-long love story and document anew the creative energies of an artist who was always at work. No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov’s to Véra Slonim. She shared his delight in life’s trifles and literature’s treasures, and h...(展开全部)

No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. Véra Slonim shared his delight at the enchantment of life's trifles and literature's treasures, and he rated her as having the best and quickest sense of humour of any woman he had met. From their meeting in 1921, Vladimir's letters to his beloved Véra form a narrative arc that tells a forty-...(展开全部)