The hall of uselessness: collected essays
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Publisher
New York Review Books
Publication Date
[2013]
Language
English
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9781590176207
Table of Contents
From the Book
Quixotism. 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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