1997 film by Zhang Yimou

他是张爱玲心目中“沈从文最好的故事里的小兵” 最后一位民国小说家 朱西甯先生作品大陆首次出版 阿城专文赏读，白先勇、莫言、王德威赞誉的白话小说经典 【编辑推荐】 1、他在张爱玲心中，“永远是沈从文最好的故事里的小兵”——文学史上的一页传奇、最后一位民国小说家朱西甯先生作品大陆首次出版。书中附赠张爱玲致作者的第一封信件手稿，原版复刻，首次曝光。 2、“居然在台湾发现了鲁迅的传人”，白先勇、莫言、王德威激赏的短篇小说经典——《铁浆》复活了战国时代的血性，和我们不大知道的民族性（张爱玲语），收录九部短篇小说，还原一百年前北方农村集镇的传奇人物与古老事件，无不是震慑心魂的悲剧，却比鲁迅先生多了谦冲温和的淑世精神。 3、阿城专文赏读——从《诗经》到《金瓶梅词话》，从汪曾祺、李劼人到朱西甯，《铁浆》接续自然主义的文学传统，是现代汉语文学中强悍的代表作。 【内容简介】 “胭脂的化石，泪的化石，一个古老的世界，一点点的永恒；依样照出一个朦胧的现代，和后世”。 《铁浆》是台湾文学家朱西甯先生的短篇小说集，收录九部短篇经典，首次在大陆出版。作品写于台湾的六〇年代，接续五四的白话小说传统，还原民国初年北方农村集镇的传奇人物与古老事件。中国传统社会与现代文明冲突的时刻，乡土成为勘探人性善恶的舞台：争盐运生意而灌下铁浆自戕的孟昭有、在酒楼上吃炒人心的屠夫傅二畜、自学医书而接连害死家人的能爷……一群血气方刚的小人物复活了战国时代的血性，和我们不大知道的民族性，演绎着仇杀与救赎、侠义与温情，愚昧与文明，无不是震慑心魂的悲剧。阿城先生作跋：《铁浆》是现代汉语文学中强悍的代表作。

2021 film directed by Nobuhiro Doi

It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.

2003 film by Vadim Perelman

1985 film directed by Huang Jianxin

If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central idea of Escape from Freedom, a landmark work by one of the most distinguished thinkers of our time, and a book that is as timely now as when first published in 1941. Few books have thrown such light upon the forces that shape modern society or penetrated so deeply into the causes of authoritarian systems. If the rise of democracy set some people free, at the same time it gave birth to a society in which the individual feels alienated and dehumanized. Using the insights of psychoanalysis as probing agents, Fromm’s work analyzes the illness of contemporary civilization as witnessed by its willingness to submit to totalitarian rule.

4-time 2013 Eisner Award Winner: Best Lettering, Best Publication, Best Writer/Artist and Best Graphic Album New York Times Book Review, Top 10 Books of the Year Time Magazine, Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year Publishers Weekly, Best Book of the Year Kirkus Reviews, Top 10 Fiction of 2012 Newsday, Top 10 Books of 2012 Entertainment Weekly, Gift Guide, A+ Washington Post, Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2012 Minneapolis Star Tribune, Best Books of the Year Cleveland Plain Dealer, Top 10 Fiction Books of the Year Amazon, Best Books of the Year/Comics Boing Boing, Best Graphic Novel of the Year Time Out New York, Best of 2012 Entertainment Weekly, Best Fiction of 2012 Everything you need to read the new graphic novel Building Stories: 14 distinctively discrete Books, Booklets, Magazines, Newspapers, and Pamphlets. With the increasing electronic incorporeality of existence, sometimes it’s reassuring—perhaps even necessary—to have something to hold on to. Thus within this colorful keepsake box the purchaser will find a fully-apportioned variety of reading material ready to address virtually any imaginable artistic or poetic taste, from the corrosive sarcasm of youth to the sickening earnestness of maturity—while discovering a protagonist wondering if she’ll ever move from the rented close quarters of lonely young adulthood to the mortgaged expanse of love and marriage. Whether you’re feeling alone by yourself or alone with someone else, this book is sure to sympathize with the crushing sense of life wasted, opportunities missed and creative dreams dashed which afflict the middle- and upper-class literary public (and which can return to them in somewhat damaged form during REM sleep). A pictographic listing of all 14 items (260 pages total) appears on the back, with suggestions made as to appropriate places to set down, forget or completely lose any number of its contents within the walls of an average well-appointed home. As seen in the pages of The New Yorker, The New York Times and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Building Stories collects a decade’s worth of work, with dozens of “never-before-published” pages (i.e., those deemed too obtuse, filthy or just plain incoherent to offer to a respectable periodical). Winner of the 2013 Eisner Awards for Best Graphic Album-New, Best Lettering, and Best Publication Design. Chris Ware is the winner of 2013 Eisner Award for Best Writer/Artist for Building Stories. One of the New York Times Book Review's Top 10 Books of 2012

艾斯纳、伊格纳兹奖获奖作品 现代人的精神图景 六种孤独 六段心灵的“杀戮与死亡” 六个《纽约客》风格的短篇图像小说 👩💻 编辑推荐 💃🏾 六个《纽约客》风格的极简短篇漫画，精准捕捉现代人众生相 他是个普通的园丁，却突如其来产生了当艺术家的想法； 她是个普通女孩，却和一位成人片女明星长得如同孪生姐妹； 他是独居的单身男子，一遍又一遍地闯入故居，但不知自己想要什么； 她是一位梦想成为脱口 秀明星的孤僻口吃少女，可惜却并无这个天分…… 他们是六位流离失所的孤独者，生活在都市各处。他们苦恼、迷惘，试图释放自己压抑的情感，却找不到属于自己的精神角落。 故事冷峻，笔触却温柔。阿德里安•远峰用六个短篇故事，捕捉现代人的众生相，剖析现代人的精神图景，属于平常人的孤独、失落与希望。 💔 风格细腻、隽永，诠释六种孤独 “更多的人死于心碎” 一个眼神、一个动作，阿德里安•远峰善用细腻的笔触捕捉人物的情感流动。他的故事隽永冲淡，如同爱丽丝•门罗和理查德•耶茨的短篇小说。画格间充满东方式留白，那一个个未曾言尽的瞬间，投射出的情感复杂而深邃。孤独、痛苦在生活的某一刻几欲将人击垮，但在一声叹息之后一切又将继续。 📰 文字、分镜、色彩的奇妙交错 以不同绘画风格适应故事的大胆尝试 从模仿报纸漫画的3×4分镜到绘本式的旁白+画面，从网点质感明显的四色到对比度强烈的黑白。阿德里安•远峰在每个短篇中尝试用不同的分镜、色彩进行叙事，配以冷静、真实的文字。文字与画面两者之间有一种奇妙的化学反应，等待读者去亲身见证。 🗞 媒体推荐 • “《闯入者》也展现了远峰的一些新的野心，展现出他对叙事与图像形式实验的兴趣。” ——《纽约时报》 • “这是一本可以推荐给一个有文学细胞但不怎么看漫画的人阅读的作品；一本不需要任何提前说明或辩护的作品，书本身展现出来的态度已经足够成熟去表达人性与复杂性。” ——《卫报》 • “没人能像阿德里安•远峰那样用极简主义抓住你的心。” ——《秃鹰：2015年十佳图像小说》 • “阿德里安•远峰为自己确立了这个国家蕞出色的、蕞多才多艺的漫画家的地位。” ——《沙龙网》 • “远峰创作了一部灵巧、克制的杰作，一部充满了心碎、点缀着震撼之美的杰作。” ——《出版人周报》 • “这部收录了六个相互关联的短篇故事的新合集跟前作《梦游》《夏日金发女郎》一样出色，唤起了现代美国人的孤独、焦虑以及希望，并让其萦绕于心……远峰聚焦于每一个细微的动作：双手紧张地交叉、一个人在对话间往下看脚部的小瞬间。” ——《村声》 📚 内容简介 一个梦想着成为艺术家的园丁；一个总被错认作知名成人片演员的女孩；一个想要开辟新生活的酗酒女子；一个做着脱口秀梦的口吃女孩；一个离开又回到丈夫身边的妻子；一个每天闯入已租出的旧居的男人…… 六个短篇，六种孤独，六段心灵的“杀戮与死亡”。这些生活在都市的普通人的众生相，构成了都市的脉搏，剖析现代人的精神图景。

2009 film by Philippe Lioret

2016 Chinese film

2013 film by Jia Zhangke

布拉德（本·斯蒂勒 Ben Stiller 饰）一直以来都是一名坚定的理想主义者，如今，他和妻子梅兰妮（珍娜·费舍 Jenna Fischer 饰）共同抚养着儿子特洛伊（奥斯汀·艾布拉姆斯 Austin Abrams）饰，与此同时，他还在经营着一家非营利性的组织，该组织专门在有需要的人和资本家之间牵线搭桥，帮助这些人获得资本的支持。 某日，布拉德开始审视自己的这大半辈子，忽然产生了自己一文不值的感觉。他觉得他这么多年来所有的理念，所做出的的全部努力都没有任何的意义。他不能给人带来实质性的帮助，同时也无法给家人带来更优渥的生活条件，而和他同龄的那些大学同学们现在都成为了各领域内的中坚分子。布拉德的整个人生都被自己否定了。

2018 Japanese film

A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can't find the time to communicate with his family. An estranged couple uses the internet as a means to escape from their lifeless marriage. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide as ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.

Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

Eerily compelling -- William Leith Evening Standard A quietly incendiary piece of writing, at times heartbreaking, at other times really wonderfully funny ... a profoundly humane, funny and smart novel. Independent A novel shot through with Banks's trademark humour, political engagement and hope. -- Louise Welsh The Times Wonderfully exuberant ... written with the life-enhancing verve characteristic of Banks's best work. Scotsman Vintage Banks, full of heart, black comedy and vitriol. Mirror A compelling, raw book -- William Leith Evening Standard Banks' handling of big, complex themes is skilful and satisfying, and he concludes on a quietly moving note of compassion. The List Infallibly entertaining Telegraph Banks's relaxed fluency - the direct, funny, unpretentious intelligence of his writing, which, along with his teeming imagination, made him perhaps Britain's best-loved major contemporary novelist. Guardian

A bittersweet portrait into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, porn-watching, grief-riddled woman, trying to make sense of the world. As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, with all its frenetic energy, late nights, and bright lights, in this very modern mix of fatalism and hedonism, sustaining a merry-go-round of broken dreamers. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the thoroughly disarming confessional of a woman so totally detached, she’s utterly lost, and ultimately wondering what the hell she ought to be doing in life. Much like the rest of us.