โ Aldous Huxley
๐ Fiction
๐
1964
๐ Bantam Books
๐ English
โ 321 KB
๐ 1 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays
โ Scribed by Leys, Simon
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Year
- 2013;2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 365 KB
- Edition
- 2
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1590176383
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
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 date. In it, he addresses subjects ranging from the Chinese attitude to the past to the mysteries of Belgium and Belgitude; offers portraits of Andre 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.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
โ Hanif Kureishi
๐ Fiction
๐
2011
๐ Faber & Faber
๐ English
โ 254 KB
๐ 1 views
This collection begins in the early 1980s with _The Rainbow Sign_ , which was written as the Introduction to the screenplay of _My Beautiful Laundrette_. It allowed Kureishi to expand upon the issues raised by the film : race, class, sexuality - issues that were provoked by his childhood and family
Collected essays
โ Arthur Miller
๐ Fiction
๐
2016
๐ Penguin Publishing Group
๐ en-US
โ 415 KB
Arthur Miller was not only one of America's most important twentieth-century playwrights, but he was also one of its most influential literary, cultural, and intellectual voices. Throughout his career, he consistently remained one of the country's leading public intellectuals, advocating tirelessly
โ Huxley, Aldous
๐ Fiction
๐
1964
๐ Bantam Books
๐ English
โ 321 KB
โ Calvino, Italo
๐ Fiction
๐
2014
๐ Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
๐ English
โ 143 KB
๐ 2 views
โ George Orwell
๐ Fiction
๐
1953
๐ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;Harcourt Brace Jovanovic
๐ English
โ 210 KB
๐ 1 views
In this bestselling compilation of essays, written in the clear-eyed, uncompromising language for which he is famous, Orwell discusses with vigor such diverse subjects as his boyhood schooling, the Spanish Civil War, Henry Miller, British imperialism, and the profession of writing.