The hall of uselessness : collected essays /
| Hlavní autor: | |
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| Médium: | Kniha |
| Jazyk: | angličtina francouzština |
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New York :
New York Review Books,
2013.
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| Edice: | New York Review Books classics
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| Classic Catalogue: | View this record in Classic Catalogue |
Obsah:
- 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.