Quixotism. The imitation of our Lord Don Quixote
Chesterton: the poet who dances with a hundred legs
Portrait of Proteus: a little abc of Andre Gide
Terror of Babel: Evelyn Waugh
The sins of the son: the posthumous publication of Nabokov's unfinished novel
The experience of literary translation
On readers' rewards and writers' awards
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
The wake of an empty boat: Zhou Enlai
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 sea. Foreword to the sea in French literature
Richard Henry Dana and his two years before the mast
University. An idea of the university
Marginalia. Prefer reading
Tell them I said something
