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008			121219t2013 nyu b 001 0 eng
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020			_a9781590176207 (alk. paper)
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041	1		_aeng _hfre _heng
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050	0	0	_aAC25.L53
100	1		_aLeys, Simon, _d1935-2014. _974778
245	1	4	_aThe Hall of Uselessness : _bCollected Essays
264		1	_aNew York : _bNew York Review Books, _c2013.
300			_a572 pages ; _c21 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aNew York Review Books classics
500			_aOriginally published: Collingwood, Vic. : Black Inc., 2011.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 513-562) and index.
505	0		_aQuixotism. The imitation of our Lord Don Quixote -- An empire of ugliness -- Lies that tell the truth -- Literature. Balzac -- Victor Hugo -- Chesterton: the poet who dances with a hundred legs -- Portrait of Proteus: a little abc of Andre Gide -- Malraux -- The intimate Orwell -- Terror of Babel: Evelyn Waugh -- The truth of Simenon -- The sins of the son: the posthumous publication of Nabokov's unfinished novel -- Cunning like a hedgehog -- The experience of literary translation -- On readers' rewards and writers' awards -- Writers and money -- Overtures -- China. The Chinese attitude towards the past -- One more art: Chinese calligraphy -- An introduction to Confucius -- Poetry and painting: aspects of Chinese classical aesthetics -- Ethics and aesthetics: the Chinese lesson -- Orientalism and Sinology -- The China experts -- The wake of an empty boat: Zhou Enlai -- Aspects of Mao Zedong -- The art of interpreting non-existent inscriptions -- Written in invisible ink on a blank page -- The curse of the man who could see the little fish at the bottom of the ocean -- The Cambodian genocide -- The sea. Foreword to the sea in French literature -- In the wake of Magellan -- Richard Henry Dana and his two years before the mast -- University. An idea of the university -- -- A fable from academe -- Marginalia. Prefer reading -- A way of living -- Tell them I said something -- Detours -- Memento Mori.
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