◆当今文学世界最伟大的心灵，当代人文主义批评大师 乔治•斯坦纳经典代表作
◆最彻骨的现代启示录，最宏阔的人文主义襟怀
本书的主题——对政治暴行的深入反思——极具当代性
对文学的梳理兼具历史感与现实关怀
可谓能指引我们重识自身与时代的经典作品
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本书是乔治•斯坦纳的代表作，也是20世纪西方人文批评的经典著作。其核心议题是语言、文学批评与人道主义（及反人道主义）。其辑录的文章写于不同时期，但都共有一个根本的主题——语言的生命。在斯坦纳看来，语言是文化的代表。而现代西方的几股非人道主义逆流（尤其是纳粹）导致了语言文化的滥用与污染，使西方文学的创作陷入“沉默”。因此，在经历了种种浩劫之后，语言及其相关的现实世界究竟该何去何从？批评家与知识分子在这一过程中又该担当何种责任？

Adapted by the Coen Brothers into an Academy Award winning film, No Country For Old Men is a dark and suspenseful novel from Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road.

Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice – leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything. And so begins a terrifying chain of events, in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?