亚托•帕西里纳（Arto Paasilinna） 生于1942年，曾做过伐木工人、制衣工人和记者。他是芬兰当代非常重要的作家，也是少数能在国际文坛享有极高声誉的芬兰小说家。他的作品产量丰富，截至目前已累积近40本作品，其中有诗集、散文集，半数以上是小说，而且被翻译成40多种语言，尤其在美国、德国、法国、日本最为畅销。 也许因为芬兰是世界上自杀率较高的国家，芬兰人最大的敌人是犹豫、悲伤、麻木，因此他的故事大多关注在小人物身上。尽管反映的是生命中沉痛的无奈，但他的笔触总保持着一种从容的幽默与轻盈，给人带来意想不到的结局，因而博得广大读者的喜爱。 他的作品不仅畅销，也曾得过许多芬兰及国际的文学奖，包括1989年法国的Prix Littéraire Air Inter，以及1994年的Giuseppe Acerbi Prize。他是近几十年来少数能从芬兰跨至...(展开全部)

Une main qui berce, qui caresse, qui soutien et qui dessine sur la pointe des pieds quand l'enfant dort. Durant la première année de son fils, Marion dessine comme pour prendre une grande respiration. Ses images s'entassent, l'aident à penser, la questionnent, fixent ses émotions et adressent à son fils des souvenirs de sa grande métamorphose en maman. Après la parution de sa d...(展开全部)

This beautiful and sad first novel, recently adapted for a major motion picture, tells of a band of teenage sleuths who piece together the story of a twenty-year old family tragedy begun by the youngest daughter's spectacular demise by self-defenstration, which inaugurates 'the year of the suicides.'

This beautiful and sad first novel, recently adapted for a major motion picture, tells of a band of teenage sleuths who piece together the story of a twenty-year old family tragedy begun by the youngest daughter’s spectacular demise by self-defenstration, which inaugurates “the year of the suicides.”

Emmanuel Levinas is one of the most important figures of twentieth-century philosophy. Exerting a profound influence upon such thinkers as Derrida, Lyotard, Blanchot, and Irigaray, Levinas's work bridges several major gaps in the evolution of continental philosophy—between modern and postmodern, phenomenology and poststructuralism, ethics and ontology. He is credited with havin...(展开全部)

Emmanuel Levinas is one of the most important figures of twentieth-century philosophy. Exerting a profound influence upon such thinkers as Derrida, Lyotard, Blanchot, and Irigaray, Levinas's work bridges several major gaps in the evolution of continental philosophy—between modern and postmodern, phenomenology and poststructuralism, ethics and ontology. He is credited with havin...(展开全部)

Emmanuel Levinas was professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne and the director of the Ecole Normale Superieur Israélite Orientale until his death in 1995. He exerted a profound influence on twentieth century continental philosophy, providing inspiration for Derrida, Lyotard, Blanchot, Irigary, and Finkielkraut, among others. Among his works translated into English are Proper Nam...(展开全部)