Art, philosophy, religion, and the history of the world converge as Paz celebrates the richness of Mexico in these fourteen dazzling essays. “To read [this collection] is to join a passionate guide for a journey through a new world, the world of the begin
Octavio Paz On Poets and Others-诗人与其他
The philosopher-man of letters brilliantly reflects on some 16 fellow poets and writers, including Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and William Carols Williams.
Octavio Paz Conjunctions and Disjunctions-连接和析取
One of the great minds of the 20th century explores the duality of human nature in all its variations in cultures around the world.pFascinated by the polarity of being, Paz has boldly attempted to write a ""history of man."" Unlike cou
Octavio Paz The Bow and the Lyre-弓和竖琴
Octavio Paz presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives.
Children of the Mire: Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde, New and Enlarged Edition
Octavio Paz launches a far-ranging excursion into the "incestuous and tempestuous" relations between modern poetry and the modern epoch. From the perspective of a Spanish-American and a poet, he explores the opposite meanings that the word "
Octavio Paz Alternating Current-交流电
Essays deal with the author's credo as an artist and poet, the sixties drug culture, modern atheism, politics, and ethics.
Octavio Paz The Siren and the Seashell: And Other Essays on Poets and Poetry-海妖与贝壳:兼论诗人与诗歌
Octavio Paz has long been known for his brilliant essays as well as for his poetry. Through the essays, he has sought to confront the tensions inherent in the conflict between art and society and to achieve a unity of their polarities. The Siren and the S
Octavio Paz In Light of India-鉴于印度
“One of the most brilliant and original essayists in any language” (Washington Post Book World) reflects on the six years he spent in India as Mexican ambassador-and reveals how the people and culture of that extraordinary land changed his life. Translate
Octavio Paz The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings-孤独迷宫与其他写作
Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. In this international classic, Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. Compared to Orteg
Eliot Weinberger 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei-19种看待王伟的方式
The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty—from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth’s loose interpretation
Octavio Paz The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism-双重火焰:爱与情
In this series of essays Octavio Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in literature throughout the ages. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repression, Carnival to Lent, Sade to Freud, origin
Nadine Gordimer Living in Hope and History: Notes from Our Century-生活在希望和历史中:我们世纪的笔记
Internationally celebrated for her novels, Nadine Gordimer has devoted much of her life and fiction to the political struggles of the Third World, the New World, and her native South Africa. Living in Hope and History is an on-the-spot record of her years
Derek Walcott What the Twilight Says: Essays-暮色所说:散文
The first collection of essays by the Nobel laureate.
Derek Walcott has been publishing essays in The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, and elsewhere for more than twenty years. What the Twilight Says collects these pieces to form a volume of r
Derek Walcott has been publishing essays in The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, and elsewhere for more than twenty years. What the Twilight Says collects these pieces to form a volume of r
Seamus Heaney The Redress of Poetry-诗歌的矫正
The Nobel laureate shares his thoughts on poetry's special ability to rectify spiritual balance as a counterweight to hostile and oppressive forces, in a collection of ten lectures on the work of such diverse poets as Christopher Marlowe, John Clare,
Through the Window,Seventeen Essays and a Short Story-透过窗户
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending and one of Britain’s greatest writers: a brilliant collection of essays on the books and authors that have meant the most to him throughout his illustrious career.
In these seventeen e
In these seventeen e
Julian Barnes Something to Declare:Essays on France-要申报的东西:法国散文集
Julian Barnes's long and passionate relationship with la belle France began more than forty years ago, and in these essays on the country and the culture he combines a keen appreciation, a seemingly infinite sphere of reference, and prose as stylish
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists-我们都应该是女权主义者
What does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from her much-viewed TEDx talk of the same name—by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of American
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions-亲爱的艾杰威尔
From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend.
A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhoo
A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhoo
Harold Pinter Art, Truth and Politics-艺术、真理与政治
The Nobel Prize for Literature 2005 is awarded to English author Harold Pinter, who in his works uncovers the cliff beneath the daily chatter and invades its closed rooms oppression."
(Swedish Academy, 13-October 2005)
(Swedish Academy, 13-October 2005)
Orhan Pamuk Other Colors-别样的色彩
In the three decades that Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving, and provocative essays and articles. He engages the work of Nabokov, Kundera, Rushdie, and Vargas Llosa,
Mario Vargas Llosa Touchstones: Essays on Literature, Art, and Politics-试金石:文学、艺术和政治散文
One of Latin Am erica's most garlanded novelists—and the recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature—Mario Vargas Llosa is also an acute and wide-ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. Touchstones collects Vargas Llosa'
Mario Vargas Llosa The Perpetual Orgy:Flaubert and Madame Bovary-永恒的狂欢:福楼拜和包法利夫人
The book's first section is a tete-a-tete with Emma Bovary; the second traces the gestation and birth of the novel, as well as Flaubert's method, his mania for documentation, and the novel's literary sources; the third situates it in litera
Mario Vargas Llosa The Language of Passion: Selected Commentary-激情之语:精选评论
Ten years of world-class journalism from one of Latin America's most influential and controversial men of letters
Since 1977, Mario Vargas Llosa has contributed a biweekly column to Spain's major newspaper, "El Pais," Dubbed "Tou
Since 1977, Mario Vargas Llosa has contributed a biweekly column to Spain's major newspaper, "El Pais," Dubbed "Tou
Temptation of the Impossible:Victor Hugo and Les Misérables-不可能的诱惑;维克多·雨果和悲惨世界
It was one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century and Tolstoy called it "the greatest of all novels." Yet today Victor Hugo's Les Misérables is neglected by readers and undervalued by critics. In The Temptation of the Impossib
Sabers and Utopias: Visions of Latin America: Essays-佩剑与乌托邦:拉丁美洲的愿景
A landmark collection of essays on the Nobel laureate's conception of Latin America, past, present, and future
Throughout his career, the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa has grappled with the concept of Latin America on a global stage. Exami
Throughout his career, the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa has grappled with the concept of Latin America on a global stage. Exami