音楽を愛したデビュー前の若き日々、執筆についての思い、思い出の中の日本と長崎、そして現代社会の問題にどう立ち向かっていくか。

Dismissed by a bored author at a book signing, a betrayed young man named David Sedaris made a vow. Someday, when it was his turn at the table, he’d connect with his readers. The experience has been even more revealing than he’d hoped.In this hilarious and perceptive essay, the celebrated humorist reflects on the unusual patterns of forced socialization between author and audience, and the obligations and sometimes surprising returns of not-so-chance encounters with strangers: jokes, secrets, insights, and even charity.

With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive, quite literally, at a cultural divide. The nine stories in this stunning debut collection unerringly chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.

One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past 50 years, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, "essential" notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category "woman" and continues in this vein with examinations of "the masculine" and "the feminine." Best known however, but also most often misinterpreted, is Butler's concept of gender as a reiterated social performance rather than the expression of a prior reality.

＜内容紹介＞
月日は百代の過客にして
行き交ふ年もまた旅人なり

旅の詩人ともいわれる松尾芭蕉は、四十六歳の春、まだ見ぬ陸奥(みちのく)の地をめざして門弟曾良（そら）と旅に出る。住み慣れた住まいを人に譲り、旅に死す覚悟をも持ちながら、これから足を踏み入れる未知なる世界に、芭蕉の心は高揚する。

かくして江戸・深川から日光、那須野と北上し、白河の関を越え、松島、平泉と奥州の道をゆく。立石寺、出羽三山、象潟(きさがた)などを巡り、北陸に出て越後、金沢を南下し、結びの地・大垣に至る。一五〇日余、約二四〇〇kmの行程であった。その後、何度も推敲が重ねられ「おくのほそ道」は完成する。

名文・名句が散りばめられた芭蕉の最高傑作ともいえる「おくのほそ道」は、今なお人々の心を漂泊の旅へといざなう・・・

＜収録内容＞
01 タイトル
02 百代の過客
03 旅立
04 草加
05 室の八島
06 仏五左衛門
07 日光
08 黒髪山
09 那須
10 黒羽
11 雲岸寺
12 殺生石・遊行柳
13 白河の関
14 須賀川
15 栗の僧
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