The thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis's trademarks--dexterity, brevity, understatement, and surprise. Although the certainty of her prose suggests a world of almost clinical reason and clarity, her characters show us that life, thought, and language are full of disorder. "Break It Down "is Davis at her best. In the wo...(展开全部)

"Let it Come Down" tells the story of Dyar, a New York bank clerk who throws up his secure, humdrum job to find a reality abroad with which to identify himself, and his macabre experiences in the inferno of Tangiers.

保罗•鲍尔斯 美国传奇作家、翻译家、作曲家。一生只创作过四部长篇小说，却被视为20世纪美国极具代表性的作家，《时代》周刊称他为那个年代独一无二的作家。2002年，其作品由美国著名非营利性出版机构——美国文库收录出版，成为传世经典。 ◆鲍尔斯深受存在主义文学影响，曾翻译过萨特、博尔赫斯等作家的作品，美国评论界称：“没有哪位作家能像鲍尔斯那样对存在主义哲学作出这样全面的阐释。” ◆1929年，鲍尔斯辍学前往巴黎学习音乐创作，随后为田纳西•威廉斯等著名剧作家作曲，迅速成为美国当代著名作曲家之一。 ◆鲍尔斯一生游离于美国之外，视自己为旅人。1947年，他移居摩洛哥丹吉尔，直到去世。丹吉尔也因为鲍尔斯而吸引了众多文学家，成了一个时代的文学圣地。 · 译者简介 陆汉臻，资深英美文学译者。毕业于北京外国语大学，现任浙江越秀外国语学院教师，浙江省翻译协会理事。代表译...(展开全部)

In "Let It Come Down," Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's second novel is an alternately comic and horr...(展开全部)

井上靖（1907～1991） Inoue Yasushi 日本作家。1907年5月6日生于北海道，卒于1991年1月29日。1936年毕业于京都大学哲学系 ，随后进入大阪每日新闻社。第二次世界大战后写作文学作品。起初写诗歌，之后写小说。短篇小说《斗牛》写于1947年 ，1950年荣获芥川奖，这使他踏上了专业作家道路。其后40余年，他写下了为数可观的小说，大致可以分为报纸小说、历史小说和随笔小说3类。报纸小说是指在报纸上连载的小说，有以男女爱情为主题的，有以人的生死为主题的，有以社会问题为主题的，作品有《涨潮》、《冰壁》、《崖》、《化石》、《夜声》和《榉树》等。历史小说是指取材于历史的小说，包括国际历史小说和日本历史小说两部分。前者大部分是有关中国的，如《天平之甍》、《楼兰》、《敦煌》、《杨贵妃传》和《孔子》等，后者如《淀殿日记》和《后白河院》等。随笔...(展开全部)

A startling book that reshapes the debate about global warming and offers a moderate approach to meeting its challenges. Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered—the Kyoto Protocol, for example—have a staggering potential cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, but, ultimately, will have little impact on the world's temperatur...(展开全部)

Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world’s temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective solutions that will cost us trillions of dollars over the coming decades, we should be looking for smarter, more cost-e...(展开全部)

A groundbreaking book that transforms the debate about global warming by offering a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental concerns. Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered to stop global warming will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, are often based on emotional rather than strictly scientific ass...(展开全部)