by Simon Leys · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782081269958
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«Le studio de l'inutilité» is a book of essays by Simon Leys, published in 2012 by Flammarion in paperback (301 pages, in French).
A collection of essays in which Simon Leys explores the relationship between literature and history, reflects on the sea as a literary theme, and dwells on authors such as Barthes, Conrad, Orwell, Michaux and Liu Xiaobo, as well as on twentieth-century China.
The subtitle of the work is «essais»; the volume includes bibliographic references and an index.
For readers of literary essays and history, especially those interested in China and the sea as a motif.
Pierre Ryckmans, better known by his pen name Simon Leys, was a Belgian-Australian sinologist and translator. He lived in Australia from 1970. His work particularly focused on the politics and traditional culture of China, calligraphy, French and English literature, the commercialization of universities, and nautical fiction. His trilogy Les Habits neufs du président Mao (1971), Ombres chinoises (1974) and Images brisées (1976) denounced the Cultural Revolution in China and the idolizing of Mao in the West.
