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Simon Leys
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Author : Philippe Paquet
language : en
Publisher: La Trobe University Press
Release Date : 2017-09-18
Simon Leys written by Philippe Paquet and has been published by La Trobe University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An award-winning biography of one of the greats. Simon Leys is the pen-name of Pierre Ryckmans, who was born in Belgium and settled in Australia in 1970. He taught Chinese literature at the Australian National University and was Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney from 1987 to 1993. He died in 2014. Writing in three languages – French, Chinese and English – he played an important political role in revealing the true nature of the Cultural Revolution. His writing on China and on varied literary and cultural topics appeared regularly in the New York Review of Books, Le Monde, Le Figaro Littéraire, Quadrant and the Monthly, and his books include The Hall of Uselessness, The Death of Napoleon, Other People’s Thoughts and The Wreck of the Batavia & Prosper. In 1996 he delivered the ABC’s Boyer Lectures. His many awards include the Prix Renaudot, the Prix Mondial Cino Del Duca, the Prix Guizot and the Christina Stead Prize for fiction. This substantial biography – recently published by Gallimard in France to wide acclaim and winning an award from the Académie Francaise – draws on extensive correspondence with Ryckmans, as well as his unpublished writings. It has been translated by an internationally renowned French translator Julie Rose (based in Sydney).
Chinese Shadows
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Author : Simon Leys
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Group
Release Date : 1978
Chinese Shadows written by Simon Leys and has been published by Penguin Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with History categories.
The Hall Of Uselessness
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Author : Simon Leys
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2014-12-12
The Hall Of Uselessness written by Simon Leys and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-12 with Literary Collections categories.
Simon Leys' cultural and political commentary has long been legendary for its profundity and acerbic wit. In The Hall of Uselessness his most significant essays are finally gathered together, on subjects ranging from China to Orwell, from Quixotism to the sea. Leys feuds with Christopher Hitchens, ponders the popularity of Victor Hugo and analyses whether Nabokov's unfinished novel should ever have been published. He dissects Mao's Cultural Revolution and the Khmer Rouge, and discusses Waugh, Simenon and Confucius. He considers Chinese art, culture and politics, the joys and difficulties of lit.
The Chairman S New Clothes
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Author : Simon Leys
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 1977
The Chairman S New Clothes written by Simon Leys and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with History categories.
The Wreck Of The Batavia Prosper
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Author : Simon Leys
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2010-09-30
The Wreck Of The Batavia Prosper written by Simon Leys and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-30 with History categories.
In 1629, the Batavia was wrecked on a coral archipelago fifty miles from the Australian continent. Most of the people on board survived, only to become victims of a visionary psychopath who, with the help of a dozen followers, organised a methodical massacre of the hapless community. Following the wreck's discovery some forty years ago, Simon Leys travelled to the site. This is his riveting account of the shipwreck and its brutal aftermath. As well as a narrative of the disaster, it is also a subtle consideration of the nature of totalitarianism and our susceptibility to its visionary ideologues. This book also includes Leys' elegiac essay, Prosper, recalling a summer when he joined the crew of a tuna-fishing boat from Brittany, one of the last boats still working under sail. This remarkable piece vividly evokes the traditions, hardships and dangers of the oldest and finest form of seamanship. 'The Wreck of the Batavia is a dazzling tale told by a master: brief, direct, essential – and monstrous.' —Philippe Sollers, Le Monde
Other People S Thoughts
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Author : Simon Leys
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2007-10-01
Other People S Thoughts written by Simon Leys and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-01 with Reference categories.
ʻA book is a mirror; if an ape looks into it, an apostle is hardly likely to look out.’ –G. C. Lichtenberg ‘The desire to go into politics is usually indicative of some sort of personality disorder, and it is precisely those who want power most that should be kept furthest from it.’ –Arthur Koestler ‘Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.’ –Thoreau In this wonderfully entertaining collection of quotations, Simon Leys gathers insights and bons mots from a motley group of great artists, wits and thinkers. Topics range from ambition and adventure to youth, sex, time, toads, wine, faith and friendship. Wise, witty and delightfully unpredictable, Other People’s Thoughts is for anyone who has ever rifled through a friend’s bookshelves or snuck a peak over a reading stranger’s shoulder. In this wide-ranging miscellany, we are given free rein to explore the nooks and crannies of one man’s mental library. By turns profound, whimsical and subversive, the result is a book-lover’s delight.
Educated Man Is Not A Pot
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Author : Simon Leys
language : en
Publisher: Black Incorporated
Release Date : 2017-01-30
Educated Man Is Not A Pot written by Simon Leys and has been published by Black Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-30 with categories.
""Confucius said- 'An educated man is not a pot'. A pot, or a tool, has only limited capacity and a narrow, specialised use. The aim of education is to enable a person to become more fully human. Western humanism had the same aim. Remember Erasmus- 'One is not born a man, one becomes a man.'" - Simon LeysSimon Leys was one of the world's most distinguished public intellectuals, renowned for the depth, acuity and wit of his writing. For nearly forty years, he taught and researched at universities. Six years before retirement age, he quit academia - horrified by the odeeply corruptingo changes occurring within higher education. In An Educated Man is Not a Pot, Geremie BarmU - award-winning writer, filmmaker and translator, and Leys' former student - collects six pieces that illuminate Leys' thoughts about the role and value of education. This gem-like book includes a reflection on "The idea of the university"; interviews with Leys about his life of learning, particularly Chinese language and history; his sharp fable about the pitfalls of contemporary academia; and BarmU's essay on his experience of being mentored by Leys. A passionate, urgent plea for change as well as a tribute to Leys' brilliant mind, An Educated Man is Not a Pot will provoke, stimulate and inspire."
On The Abolition Of All Political Parties
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Author : Simone Weil
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2014-09-30
On The Abolition Of All Political Parties written by Simone Weil and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-30 with Philosophy categories.
An NYRB Classics Original Simone Weil—philosopher, activist, mystic—is one of the most uncompromising of modern spiritual masters. In “On the Abolition of All Political Parties” she challenges the foundation of the modern liberal political order, making an argument that has particular resonance today, when the apathy and anger of the people and the self-serving partisanship of the political class present a threat to democracies all over the world. Dissecting the dynamic of power and propaganda caused by party spirit, the increasing disregard for truth in favor of opinion, and the consequent corruption of education, journalism, and art, Weil forcefully makes the case that a true politics can only begin where party spirit ends. This volume also includes an admiring portrait of Weil by the great poet Czeslaw Milosz and an essay about Weil’s friendship with Albert Camus by the translator Simon Leys.
The Analects Norton Critical Editions
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Author : Confucius
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2014-06-17
The Analects Norton Critical Editions written by Confucius and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-17 with Philosophy categories.
“Leys has made Confucius speak English more persuasively than any translator to date. His achievement is one of simplicity. . . . Leys sees his task as making the Confucius of the Analects fully persuasive again. He does this brilliantly.” —Stephen Owen, The New Republic The Norton Critical Edition aims to situate the historical figure of Kongzi, the legendary figure of Confucius, and the Analects (or Lunyu), the single most influential book ascribed to the Master's circle of disciples, within their evolving ethical, cultural, and political contexts. Simon Leys’s acclaimed translation and notes are accompanied by Michael Nylan’s insightful introduction. Eleven essays by leading experts in the field of Chinese studies discuss a broad range of issues relating to the Analects, from the origins of the classicists (Ru) and the formation of the Analects text to the use (and abuse) of the Master’s iconic image in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Asian, diasporic, and Western settings. Collectively, these readings suggest that the Confucius we thought we knew is not the Kongzi of record and that this Kongzi is a protean figure given to rapid change and continual reevaluation. Contributors include Henry Rosemont Jr., Nicolas Zufferey, Robert Eno, Thomas Wilson, Sébastien Billioud and Vincent Goossaert, Julia K. Murray, Mark Csikszentmihalyi and Tae Hyun Kim, Eric L. Hutton, Luke Habberstad, He Yuming, and Sam Ho.
The Burning Forest
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Author : Simon Leys
language : en
Publisher: Holt McDougal
Release Date : 1985
The Burning Forest written by Simon Leys and has been published by Holt McDougal this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with History categories.