Blanchot's famous fictive recit, tr Lydia Davis

Funny and moving by turns, Deaf Sentence is a witty, original and absorbing account of one man’s effort to come to terms with deafness, ageing and mortality, and the comedy and tragedy of human lives. When the university merged his Department of English with Linguistics, Professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not enjoying it. He misses the routine of the acade...(展开全部)

Retired Professor of Linguistics Desmond Bates is going deaf. It's a bother for his wife who has an enviably successful new career and is too busy to be endlessly repeating herself. Roles are reversed with his aging father, who resents his son's attempts to help him. And then there's Alex, a student whom Desmond has agreed to help after a typical misunderstanding at a party. Bu...(展开全部)

Blanchot's famous fictive recit, tr Lydia Davis

The second volume of the definite five-book set of the complete collected stories of the twentieth centure's greatest sf author includes such masterpieces as the title story,with its endless war being fought by ever more cunning and sophisticated robot weapons, and "Imposor", where a man accused of being an alien spy finds his whole identity called into question. In these twent...(展开全部)

Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature, widely conceived. It is both an experiment in the attentive form of the essay - asking what happens, and where one might wander, when as readers and writers we pay minute attention to the language before us - and a polemic for certain kinds of experiment in prose. In a series of e...(展开全部)

For over a century, philosophers have argued that philosophy is impossible or useless, or both. Although the basic notion dates back to the days of Socrates, there is still heated disagreement about the nature of truth, reality, knowledge, the good, and God. This leaves us with a feeling of radical uncertainty, a feeling described by Kolakowski as "metaphysical horror". "The ho...(展开全部)

简介：★［本书曾借用了horror的身体亿会儿］★

简介：都给我去看我写的另一本书！！！！！！(暂停更新)成为horror,幼不幼稚，无所谓.我爽就行(இωஇ)我可能也会出关于horror其他作品，太可爱了，ooc属于我，人物属于原作者不会弃坑我再多说一嘴，女骨！！！注意避雷！！！我缺粮，好吧如果什么不懂的，就在评论区问，我回头加进第二章再加一项:如果没有什么意外的话，每天都会更新，可能只有中考那几天，我会停一段时间，不过不要担心，等中考结束以后，都给你们补回来

简介：★［本书曾借用了horror的身体亿会儿］★