New York 2023. Nike, the hero of the Dormant Beast, has a prodigious memory, and he uses his gift to try to understand his part as a Yugoslay orphan, as well as his violent and chaotic present, where obscurantism has become a flourishing business of worldwide manipulation. A haunting and captivating work by one of the foremost graphic novel artists in the world.

New York 2023. Nike, the hero of the Dormant Beast, has a prodigious memory, and he uses his gift to try to understand his part as a Yugoslay orphan, as well as his violent and chaotic present, where obscurantism has become a flourishing business of worldwide manipulation. A haunting and captivating work by one of the foremost graphic novel artists in the world.

约翰·霍克斯（1925-1998），美国著名先锋派和后现代主义作家，美国艺术文学院院士，古根海姆学者奖（1962）、埃特兰格尔奖（1973）和法国美第斯奖（1986）得主。1925年，约翰·霍克斯出生于康涅狄格州，1943年由柏丽高中进入哈佛大学，1949年获得艺术学学士学位，期间曾出版诗集《堕落的庄园》。由哈佛毕业后，霍克斯分别任教于哈佛大学、斯坦福大学和布朗大学。 约翰·霍克斯是一位多产的作家，他一生创作了十八部小说，其中包括《血橙》、《食人者》、《疾速旅程》、《激情的画者》和《血与皮肤的幽默》等，1966年他还创作了戏剧《无辜群》。

约翰·霍克斯（1925-1998），美国著名先锋派和后现代主义作家，美国艺术文学院院士，古根海姆学者奖（1962）、埃特兰格尔奖（1973）和法国美第斯奖（1986）得主。1925年，约翰·霍克斯出生于康涅狄格州，1943年由柏丽高中进入哈佛大学，1949年获得艺术学学士学位，期间曾出版诗集《堕落的庄园》。由哈佛毕业后，霍克斯分别任教于哈佛大学、斯坦福大学和布朗大学。 约翰·霍克斯是一位多产的作家，他一生创作了十八部小说，其中包括《血橙》、《食人者》、《疾速旅程》、《激情的画者》和《血与皮肤的幽默》等，1966年他还创作了戏剧《无辜群》。

The great rooms caused so much poetry and history to press upon him that he needed some straying apart to feel in a proper relation with them, though this impulse was not, as happened, like the gloating of some of his companions, to be compared to the movements of a dog sniffing a cupboard. It had an issue promptly enough in a direction that was not to have been calculated.

Something or other lay in wait for him, amid the twists and turns of the months and the years, like a crouching beast in the jungle.' Henry James' devastating and profoundly moving novella is the story of John Marcher, a man who, for as long as he can remember, has been obsessed by the feeling that some life-changing - even catastrophic - event lies in wait for him like a jungl...(展开全部)

The great rooms caused so much poetry and history to press upon him that he needed some straying apart to feel in a proper relation with them, though this impulse was not, as happened, like the gloating of some of his companions, to be compared to the movements of a dog sniffing a cupboard. It had an issue promptly enough in a direction that was not to have been calculated.