哈维尔•马里亚斯 Javier Marías 西班牙作家，一九五一年生于马德里，父亲胡里安•马里亚斯是哲学家。 哈维尔•马里亚斯很早立志写作，大学一毕业就出版了两部小说，《狼的领地》（1971）和《地平线之旅》（1973）。同时，他致力于翻译文学作品，一九七九年，他所翻译的《项狄传》获得西班牙国家翻译奖。一九八三年至一九八五年，他在牛津大学教授西班牙文学和翻译理论。 在四十年的创作生涯中，马里亚斯著有多部长篇小说、文学评论、旅行散记和短篇小说集，如《如此苍白的心》《迷情》《坏事开头》《不再有爱》《贝尔塔•伊思拉》等，蜚声国际。

Written Lives is a collection of biographies of canonical authors, and making up anything would constitute an act of mischief upon both the reader and literary history as a whole. In fact, the whole project reads like a gentle prank: to treat the greatest writers as if they were short story characters. Marias thankfully has a masterful touch, and his toying with the tradition h...(展开全部)

劳伦斯·弗里德曼爵士，现为英国伦敦国王大学战争系荣休教授、伦敦国王学院战争研究系的教授和主管研究的副校长，研究领域涉及冲突、安全与历史，他在国际历史、战略理论与核武器相关领域著述颇丰，经常就当代安全问题发表时事评论。卡赞斯坦曾称其为一位“现实主义的建构主义者”。他的著作曾获得美国国际事务图书类“阿瑟·罗斯奖”、莱昂内尔·吉尔伯奖和威斯敏斯特公爵军事文学奖。

劳伦斯·弗里德曼爵士，现为英国伦敦国王大学战争系荣休教授、伦敦国王学院战争研究系的教授和主管研究的副校长，研究领域涉及冲突、安全与历史，他在国际历史、战略理论与核武器相关领域著述颇丰，经常就当代安全问题发表时事评论。卡赞斯坦曾称其为一位“现实主义的建构主义者”。他的著作曾获得美国国际事务图书类“阿瑟·罗斯奖”、莱昂内尔·吉尔伯奖和威斯敏斯特公爵军事文学奖。

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. "At once a love story and a philosophical meditation."--New York Times Book Review.

From Publishers Weekly This fourth effort from British writer Winterson ( Sexing the Cherry ) is a high-concept erotic novelette， a Vox for the postmarital crowd. The narrator， a lifelong philanderer ("I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick")， has fallen in love with Louise， a pre-Raphaelite beauty. Louise is unhappily married to a workaholi...(展开全部)

This is a love story and, like all Winterson's novels, a philosophical meditation, this time on the body: as the repository for our emotions and souls. The object is a married woman, Louise, and the narrator is her lover, gender undeclared. The affair intensifies beyond anything either of the lovers has ever known or hoped for. And as they dissect their passion and longing, Jea...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly This fourth effort from British writer Winterson ( Sexing the Cherry ) is a high-concept erotic novelette， a Vox for the postmarital crowd. The narrator， a lifelong philanderer ("I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick")， has fallen in love with Louise， a pre-Raphaelite beauty. Louise is unhappily married to a workaholi...(展开全部)

This is a love story and, like all Winterson's novels, a philosophical meditation, this time on the body: as the repository for our emotions and souls. The object is a married woman, Louise, and the narrator is her lover, gender undeclared. The affair intensifies beyond anything either of the lovers has ever known or hoped for. And as they dissect their passion and longing, Jea...(展开全部)

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. "At once a love story and a philosophical meditation."--New York Times Book Review.