[Cahier Series 09] • The Hall of Uselessness · Collected Essays (New York Review Books Classics) by Leys, Simon -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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CONTENTS THE HALL OF USELESSNESS: BY WAY OF A FOREWORD Part I: QUIXOTISM

THE IMITATION OF OUR LORD DON QUIXOTE AN EMPIRE OF UGLINESS LIES THAT TELL THE TRUTH

Part II: LITERATURE

THE PRINCE DE LIGNE, OR THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY INCARNATE* BALZAC VICTOR HUGO VICTOR SEGALEN REVISITED THROUGH HIS COMPLETE CORRESPONDENCE CHESTERTON PORTRAIT OF PROTEUS MALRAUX THE INTIMATE ORWELL TERROR OF BABEL THE TRUTH OF SIMENON THE BELGIANNESS OF HENRI MICHAUX 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

Part III: CHINA

THE CHINESE ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE PAST ONE MORE ART* AN INTRODUCTION TO CONFUCIUS POETRY AND PAINTING* ETHICS AND AESTHETICS ORIENTALISM AND SINOLOGY* THE CHINA EXPERTS ROLAND BARTHES IN CHINA THE WAKE OF AN EMPTY BOAT 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 ANATOMY OF A “POST-TOTALITARIAN” DICTATORSHIP*

Part IV: THE SEA

FOREWORD TO THE SEA IN FRENCH LITERATURE* IN THE WAKE OF MAGELLAN RICHARD HENRY DANA AND HIS TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST

Part V: UNIVERSITY

THE IDEA OF THE UNIVERSITY* A FABLE FROM ACADEME

Part VI: MARGINALIA

I PREFER READING A WAY OF LIVING TELL THEM I SAID SOMETHING DETOURS MEMENTO MORI ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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