The Hall of Uselessness [Audiobook] download free by Simon Leys
- Listen audiobook: The Hall of Uselessness
- Author: Simon Leys
- Release date: 2013/1/10
- Publisher: THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781590176207
- Rating: 7.59 of 10
- Votes: 366
- Review by: Ryker Boggs
- Review rating: 8.14 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/18
- Duration: 7H6M32S in 256 kbps (115.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-07
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, WavPack, MPEG4, MOD, WAV, MP3, FLAC (compression TZ, CAB, EML, AZW, RAR, TAR.XZ, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 576
- Includes a PDF summary of 46 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 34M30S (9.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 André 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Studies: General, Literary Essays, Political Science & Theory
- Download servers: MEGA, Google Drive, Hightail, Mediafire, BitShare. Compressed in TZ, CAB, EML, AZW, RAR, TAR.XZ, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 21.62 USD
- Dimensions: 127x203x31mm
- Weight: 565g
- Printed by: NYRB Classics
- Published in: New York, United States
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