The hall of uselessness : (Record no. 4205)
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fixed length control field | 02181cam a2200217 i 4500 |
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 |
Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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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 |