Mabel Lee Ordine dei libri

Paperback. Pub Date :2010-05-21 192 English Harper Perennial From Chinas first-ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature comes an exquisite new book of fictions. none of which has ever been published before in English . A young couple on honeymoon visit a beautiful temple up in the mountains. and spend the day intoxicated by the tranquillity of the setting; a swimmer is paralysed by a sudden cramp and finds himself stranded far out to sea on a cold autumn day; a man reminisces about his beloved grandfather. who used to make his own fishing rods from lengths of crooked bamboo straightened over a fire ... Blending the crisp immediacy of the present moment with the soft afterglow of memory and nostalgia. these stories hum with simplicity and wisdom - and will delight anyone who loved Gaos bestselling novels. Soul Mountain and One Mans Bible.

L'opera più nota del premio Nobel per la letteratura 2000. È il racconto, in gran parte autobiografico, di un lungo viaggio nella Cina del sud-ovest, compiuto da uno scrittore perseguitato dal regime e al quale, per errore, è stato diagnosticato un cancro. Il viaggio è dunque l'occasione di un bilancio esistenziale e fonte inesauribile di nuove esperienze. E il libro diviene romanzo picaresco in cui si intrecciano avventure di feroci briganti e tristi storie di fanciulle suicide per amore, saggio enciclopedico sugli animali e le piante della foresta, sugli usi delle popolazioni tribali, sulla storia classica e contemporanea, riflessione politica sulla Cina comunista, ricerca filosofica, storia d'amore...

The study of the interplay between the individual self and collective selves is an arena of rich theory and research in social psychology. Self and Social Identity is a collection of readings from the four-volume set of Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology that examine how group memberships shape the content of the individual's self concept and how the sense of self is expanded as a consequence of identification with other individuals and the group as a whole.