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    The Hall Of Uselessness (häftad, eng)

    An NYRB Classics Original

    Simon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization. A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese...
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      An NYRB Classics Original

      Simon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization. A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature and one of the first Westerners to recognize the appalling toll of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, Leys also writes with unfailing intelligence, seriousness, and bite about European art, literature, history, and politics and is an unflinching observer of the way we live now.

      The Hall of Uselessness is the most extensive collection of Leys’s essays to be published to dateIn it, he addresses subjects ranging from the Chinese attitude to the past to the mysteries of Belgium and Belgitude; offers portraits of André Gide and Zhou Enlai; takes on Roland Barthes and Christopher Hitchens; broods on the Cambodian genocide; reflects on the spell of the sea; and writes with keen appreciation about writers as different as Victor Hugo, Evelyn Waugh, and Georges Simenon.

      Throughout, The Hall of Uselessness is marked with the deep knowledge, skeptical intelligence, and passionate conviction that have made Simon Leys one of the most powerful essayists of our time.


      Format Häftad
      Omfång 576 sidor
      Språk Engelska
      Förlag The New York Review of Books, Inc
      Utgivningsdatum 2013-07-30
      ISBN 9781590176207

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      • Format Häftad
      • Antal sidor 576
      • Språk Engelska
      • Utgivningsdatum 2013-07-30
      • ISBN 9781590176207
      • Förlag The New York Review of Books, Inc

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      • Format Häftad
      • Antal sidor 576
      • Språk Engelska
      • Utgivningsdatum 2013-07-30
      • ISBN 9781590176207
      • Förlag The New York Review of Books, Inc
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