This newly translated collection of stories brilliantly evokes the shifting scenes and restlessness of summer. A professor arrives in a beautiful Spanish village only to find that her host has left and she must cope with fractious neighbours alone; a holiday on a Finnish Island is thrown into disarray when a disconcerting young boy arrives; an artist returns to an old flat to d...(展开全部)

Starting with the fictional figure of Mme. Historicist as invoked by Joan Copjec, an American psychoanalytic critic of historicism, this introduction sets the stages for the volume by arguing that historicism can productively be interpreted as a ‘travelling concept’. Historicism is not only a technical term for nineteenth-century modes of thinking; it is also a term of abuse, a...(展开全部)

A JAPANESE BESTSELLING SENSATION TRANSLATED BY PHILIP GABRIEL, A TRANSLATOR OF MURAKAMI TO BE PUBLISHED IN OVER TEN LANGUAGES. Nana, a cat, is devoted to Satoru, his owner. So when Satoru decides to go on a roadtrip one day to find him a new home, Nana is perplexed. They visit Satoru's old friends from his school days and early youth. His friends may have untidy emotional lives...(展开全部)

米歇尔•塞尔（Michel Serres），法国著名哲学家。生于1930年，现为索邦（巴黎一大）科学史教授。他的哲学著作始于对莱布尼茨的研究，后来他逐渐开始表达自己的思想，并写出五卷本的《赫尔墨斯》系列丛书。他认为，一切种类的数据都具有哲学性，哲学家必须避免使自己脱离任何形式的研究。他后期的著作将哲学与文学和生活相结合。

米歇尔•塞尔（Michel Serres），法国著名哲学家。生于1930年，现为索邦（巴黎一大）科学史教授。他的哲学著作始于对莱布尼茨的研究，后来他逐渐开始表达自己的思想，并写出五卷本的《赫尔墨斯》系列丛书。他认为，一切种类的数据都具有哲学性，哲学家必须避免使自己脱离任何形式的研究。他后期的著作将哲学与文学和生活相结合。

Founders of the phenomenally successful publishing company Lonely Planet, Tony and Maureen Wheeler have produced travel guides to just about every corner of the globe. Lonely Planet Publications was born in 1973 when the Wheelers self-published a quirky travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. This was quickly followed by what soon became the backpackers bible, South-East Asia o...(展开全部)

Founders of the phenomenally successful publishing company Lonely Planet, Tony and Maureen Wheeler have produced travel guides to just about every corner of the globe. Lonely Planet Publications was born in 1973 when the Wheelers self-published a quirky travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. This was quickly followed by what soon became the backpackers bible, South-East Asia o...(展开全部)

彼得·比格尔（Peter Burger），1936年生，1971年起任德国不来梅大学法国文学与比较文学教授。著有《先锋派理论》、《现代主义的衰弱》、《唯心主义美学批判》、《中介一接受一功能》（论文集）和《艺术体制：现代德国文化与文学》（与克丽斯塔·比格尔合著）等。

彼得·比格尔（Peter Burger），1936年生，1971年起任德国不来梅大学法国文学与比较文学教授。著有《先锋派理论》、《现代主义的衰弱》、《唯心主义美学批判》、《中介一接受一功能》（论文集）和《艺术体制：现代德国文化与文学》（与克丽斯塔·比格尔合著）等。