Confucius; Leys, Simon (trans)       
            
        
          Analects of Confucius, The        
      
            
        New York, Norton, W W, & Company   1997       
            
        xxxii,224pp; 20x13cm   Cloth with dustjacket      
            
        A discontinuous series of brief statements, short dialogues and anecdotes compiled by two generations of disciples, completed around 400BC. The translation is accompanied by a substantial commentary by the translator, Pierre Ryckmans, an Australian Belgian scholar, using the pseudonym Simon Leys        
      
                
 
      