The hall of uselessness : (Record no. 4205)

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008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 121219t2013 nyu b 001 0 eng
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781590176207 (alk. paper)
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency AE-DuAJ
Transcribing agency AE-ShKH
041 1# - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
Language code of original fre
-- eng
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number AC25
Item number .L53 2013
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Leys, Simon,
Dates associated with a name 1935-2014.
9 (RLIN) 12190
240 10 - UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Essays.
Form subheading Selections
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The hall of uselessness :
Remainder of title collected essays /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Simon Leys.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. New York Review Books,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. [2013]
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 572 pages ;
Dimensions 21 cm.
490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement New York Review Books classics
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Originally published: Collingwood, Vic. : Black Inc., 2011.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-562) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Civilization, Western.
9 (RLIN) 12441
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    Library of Congress Classification     Jameel Library Jameel Library General Stacks 06/30/2021   AC25 .L53 2013 14113 06/30/2021 C.1 06/30/2021 Books