Simon Leys
Literary Criticism: Why and How?: Simon Leys
Simon Leys
Simon Leys' cultural and political commentary has spanned four decades, with no corner of the arts escaping his sharp eye and acerbic wit....
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The Sins of the Son: Vladimir Nabokov's 'The Original of Laura: A Novel in Fragments'
Simon Leys
The bitterness of an interrupted life is nothing compared to the bitterness of an interrupted work: the probability of a continuation of...
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The Cambodian Genocide: Francis Deron's 'The Trial of the Khmer Rouge'
Simon Leys
One remembers the last lines of Kafka’s Trial: Josef K, an innocent citizen who fell into an incomprehensible and endless web of judicial...
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In the Wake of Magellan: The Voyage of Globalisation’s Forefather
Simon Leys
First, though Magellan was indeed Portuguese, he sailed for Spain - personally commissioned by Charles V. His foreign origin provoked...
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Lies that Tell the Truth: The paradox of art and creative writing
Simon Leys
This essay was originally an address to the annual conference of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, where its title, at the request of...
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Simon Leys
Do you grieve at the thought that your life must come to an end? The alternative could be worse – Swift showed it convincingly in Gulliver’...
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Simon Leys
Some time ago, newspapers reported the results of an inquiry conducted among the general public to determine “the hundred most beautiful...
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