Review: Orville Schell on Simon Leys
“In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot,” observed the poet Czeslaw Milosz upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature. I experienced a similar sensation reading Philippe Paquet’s stunning biography of the legendary sinologist and de-frocker of the Chinese Communist revolution, …
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