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by Leys, Simon


  Bernard (Claude) 45

  Bernard (Tristan) 170

  Bertelé, René 217

  Bertrand (A.) 515

  Betjeman (John) 200

  Biancai 552

  Billeter (J.F.) 302, 305, 309–13, 358

  Bizot (F.) 413

  Blainey (G.) 48

  Blake (William) 506

  Blanche (Cynthia) 472

  Blanche (J.-E.) 115

  Bloom (H.) 497–99

  Bloy (Léon) 190, 490

  Blum (Léon) 116, 118, 526

  Bole 44

  Bombard (Alain) 433, 559

  Boncenne (P.) 240

  Borges (J.L.) 47, 109, 212, 293, 316, 473–74, 477, 479–80, 545, 551–52

  Bossuet 143, 519

  Boswell (James) 163, 172, 264, 308, 530, 553, 561

  Bouillier (H.) 86–87, 522

  Boyd (Brian) 22, 237, 513

  Bo Yibo 400

  Braque (G.) 313, 348

  Bréchon (Robert) 218

  Breton (A.) 520

  Brodsky (Joseph) 74, 76, 501, 517–18, 522

  Brontë (Emily) 255

  Brooke (Rupert) 129

  Brosse (Jacques) 545

  Brouwer (A.) 481

  Brownell (Sonia) 175, 189

  Browning (Robert) 144, 262

  Brunelleschi (Filippo) 491

  Brzezinski (Z.) 413

  Bulwer-Lytton (E.) 272

  Burgess (A.) 246, 271–72

  Burns (Robert) 245, 259

  Butler (Samuel) 144

  Byron 245, 522

  Cabanis (J.) 515

  Caldwell (E.) 255

  Camoens 434

  Camus (Albert) 182, 249

  Canetti (E.) 319, 326–27, 408, 554

  Carrel (A.) 505

  Carroll (Lewis) 370

  Carter (Jimmy) 413

  Cartier-Bresson (H.) 471

  Casanova 59, 515

  Casanova (film) 243

  Cate (Curtis) 170, 543

  Catherine the Great 56

  Céline (L.F.) 265

  Cervantes 18–25, 28–30, 316, 513

  Cézanne (P.) 349, 481, 543

  Cha Liangyong, see Jin Yong

  Chang Ta-ch’ien 310

  Chaplin (Charlie) 223

  Chardonne (J.) 169, 208, 257, 268, 543

  Charlemagne 56

  Charles (son of Prince de Ligne) 58

  Charles V 441, 444

  Charles X 78

  Chateaubriand 358, 434, 547

  Chatwin (Bruce) 168, 543

  Chekhov 17, 46, 145, 279–80, 474, 497–99, 534

  Cheng (François) 547, 555

  Chen Wei 559

  Chen Yun 400

  Chesterton (G.K.) 7, 21, 100–13, 198, 238–39, 271, 477, 497, 510, 523–24, 544

  Chiang Ching-kuo 425

  Chiang Kai-shek 291, 396

  Chopin 304, 348, 534–35

  Churchill 176, 385

  Cioran (E.) 211, 230, 246, 502–3, 545

  Clark (Manning) 474

  Claudel (P.) 45, 88, 98–99, 102, 115, 119, 134–35, 138, 144, 146–48, 194–96, 259, 345, 357–58, 519, 531, 537, 539, 556

  Closson (Herman) 217, 219, 546

  Cocteau (J.) 62, 115, 139, 268

  Coindreau (M.E.) 249–50, 255

  Coleridge 316

  Colombus 443

  Confucius 8, 253, 294–95, 314–28, 375, 387, 478, 486, 490, 511, 553, 556

  Connolly (Cyril) 180, 266

  Conquest (R.) 48–49

  Conrad (Joseph) 47, 144–45, 189, 219, 222, 246, 256, 433–34, 438–39, 500, 519, 528, 536, 547, 560, 562

  Conscience (H.) 253

  Cook (James) 445

  Copeau (J) 115, 134, 528

  Corneille (P.) 62

  Correggio 251

  Courbet (Gustave) 481

  Cowen (Zelman) 462

  Crick (B.) 178–79

  Curtius (E.R.) 137

  Dalai Lama 33

  Dana (R.H.) 8, 247, 256, 267, 434, 452–57, 512, 535

  Dante 20–21, 143

  Daumier (H.) 65, 516, 536

  Davison (P.) 175, 179, 183, 185, 544

  de Beauvoir (S.) 168

  Debussy (Claude) 88

  de Coppet (M.) 525

  Defoe (D.) 434

  Degas (E.) 43, 76, 258, 481, 493, 518, 534

  de Gaulle (Ch.) 171, 242, 367, 384

  de Gaultier (Jules) 88, 92

  de Goncourt (E.) 75, 517

  Delacroix (E.) 83, 304, 354, 485, 522, 535

  Delebecque (F.) 255

  Deng Xiaoping 368–69, 384, 392, 401, 420, 428

  Deroisin (Sophie) 55, 59–60, 509, 514

  Deron (F.) 409–10, 414, 416

  Detaille (E.) 145

  de Vercellis (Countess) 487

  de Vilmorin (Louise) 171

  de Voisins (Auguste-Gilbert) 93–95

  Diana (Princess) 33

  Dickens (Ch.) 18, 21, 61–62, 253, 258, 266, 455

  Diderot (D.) 156, 280

  Dostoevsky (F.) 145, 248, 266, 536

  Drake (Francis) 438, 444, 447

  Dreyfus (A.) 50

  Drouet (Juliette) 516, 518

  du Bellay (J.) 285

  du Bos (Ch.) 115, 524, 536

  Duch 413–14

  Du Fu 259

  Duguay-Trouin (R.) 433, 559

  Dumas (A.) 18, 143, 252, 266, 433, 512, 521

  Dumas (A., son) 252

  Duthuit (G.) 167, 542

  Duvalier (Baby Doc) 40

  Duvernois (H.) 117

  Eckermann (J.P.) 163

  Edel (Leon) 517

  Ehrenburg (I.) 157

  Einstein (A.) 170

  Elcano (Juan Sebastian) 441, 449

  Elizabeth I (Queen) 444

  Emerson (R.W.) 60, 454

  Ensor (James) 161

  Fairbank (J.K.) 362, 404

  Faulkner (W.) 249, 529

  Faure (E.) 167

  Fellini (F.) 243

  Flaubert (G.) 24, 61, 118, 143, 280, 282, 345–46, 350, 405, 462, 556–57

  Fleming (Ann) 193

  Forain (Jean-Louis) 230

  Forster (E.M.) 143, 251, 488

  Fowles (J.) 281

  Fra Angelico 355

  France (Anatole) 120, 486

  Franco (Francisco) 484, 544

  Freud (S.) 205, 500

  Friedman (E.) 364–66

  Frost (Robert) 435

  Fu Shan 313

  Gallimard (G.) 115, 139

  García Márquez (Gabriel) 258

  Garneray (Louis) 433, 559

  Gauguin (Paul) 90

  Gautier (Th.) 561

  Gerbault (Alain) 433, 559

  Gezelle (Guido) 546

  Gibbon (E.) 261

  Gibran (Khalil) 120

  Gide (André) 7, 62, 75, 114–44, 146–58, 160–65, 171, 207, 258, 268, 475, 488, 510, 524–41

  Gide (Catherine) 129–32, 541

  Gide (Madeleine) 119, 127, 129, 138, 149–54, 527, 532, 539–40

  Gilbert and Sullivan 97

  Gluck (C.) 514

  Goethe 123, 143, 156, 163, 171, 253, 258, 475, 480, 486, 537, 539

  Gogol (N.) 221, 235

  Gorbachev (Mikhail) 425

  Gosse (E.) 115

  Gould (Glenn) 310, 495–96

  Gracq (J.) 318–19, 554

  Graham (A.C.) 554

  Grant (Hugh) 260

  Green (Julien) 141, 165, 207–8, 246, 488, 534

  Greene (Graham) 192, 248, 257–58, 277–78, 280, 500

  Gris (Juan) 348, 556

  Groethuysen (B.) 164

  Guo Moruo 297

  Haffner (S.) 49–50

  Han Gan 344

  Hanshan 259

  Hanska (Eveline) 65

  Han Suyin 364–66

  Han Yu 346, 494

  Hardy (Thomas) 144

  Hartley (L.P.) 276

  Hasluck (Paul) 107

  Hawkins (Sir John) 482

  Hays (D. & D.) 562

  Hazlitt (W.) 122
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  Hemingway (E.) 20, 172–73, 272–73

  Herbart (P.) 118, 123, 129–32, 138–42, 162, 165, 526–29, 533–34

  Hergé 222

  Herzen (A.) 276

  Hesse (H.) 123

  Hewett (D.) 472

  Hilpert (Hélène) 97–98

  Hitchens (Christopher) 31–40

  Hitler (A.) 48–49, 117, 140, 158–59, 372, 380, 385, 393, 409

  Hobbes (Thomas) 135

  Holbein (H.) 63, 304

  Homer 82, 136, 154, 434

  Hope (A.) 253

  Hope (A.D.) 338, 555

  Hovasse (M.) 520–21

  Howe (Irving) 184

  Huang Binhong 495–96

  Hughes (Robert) 48, 73

  Hugo (Adèle) 518, 520

  Hugo (Adèle—daughter) 81, 518

  Hugo (Victor) 7, 18, 62, 71–84, 143, 228, 253, 266, 273, 433–34, 509, 512, 516–22

  Ignatius de Loyola 30

  Ikeda Daisaku 521

  Ingres (A.D.) 354

  Ionesco (E.) 486

  Isaacs (Harold) 166

  James (Henry) 71–74, 144, 222, 265, 450, 517

  Jammes (Francis) 115

  Janouch (G.) 101

  Jarrell (Randall) 259, 474

  Jerome (St.) 254

  Jesus Christ 23, 32–33, 35–37, 40–41, 51–52, 199, 317–18, 321, 497, 554

  Jia Dao 351

  Jiang Qing (Madam Mao) 365, 373

  Jin Yong 521

  St. John 307, 417

  John of the Cross 30, 201

  John–Paul II 108

  Johnson (Samuel) 45, 163, 194, 202, 220, 264, 308, 436–37, 479, 482, 530, 553, 561

  Joseph II (King of Prussia) 56, 59

  Jouhandeau (M.) 115

  Joyce (James) 144, 202

  Jung (C.G.) 205, 260, 286, 548

  Kafka (F.) 101, 253–54, 261, 277, 282, 351, 408–9

  Keating (Charles) 33

  Keats (John) 456

  Khnopff (F.) 161

  Khrushchev (N.) 386

  King (Stephen) 22

  Kipling (Rudyard) 109, 182

  Kissinger (Henry) 380, 413

  Klee (Paul) 346

  Klein (R.) 481

  Koestler (A.) 166, 273

  Korda (A.) 277–78

  Korzeniowski (Apollo) 519

  Kristel (Sylvia) 500

  La Bruyère 143, 156, 478

  Lacan (J.) 240

  Ladany (Laszlo) 389–90, 393–94, 397, 400

  La Fontaine 135, 143, 255

  Lambert (Isabelle) 132

  Lambert (Jean) 132, 541

  Lao Zi 255

  Larbaud (Valery) 102, 249–51, 525

  Larkin (Philip) 195, 217, 245–46

  Lartigue (Jean) 88, 95

  Lastman (Pieter) 250

  Lawrence (D.H.) 221, 456, 500

  Lawrence (T.E.) 109, 170

  Lawson (Henry) 474–75

  Ledderose (L.) 297, 550, 552

  Lee Kuan-yew 314

  Lenin 299, 399, 409, 416

  Leonardo da Vinci 516

  Levi (Primo) 408

  Lewis (A.) 482–83

  Lewis (C.S.) 29, 44, 462, 482–83, 499

  Li Bai 340, 434

  Lie Zi 44, 330, 406, 554

  Li Fuchun 400

  Ligne (Prince de, Charles-Joseph Lamoral) 7, 55–60, 509, 514–15

  Li He 338

  Lin Biao 365, 374–75, 384

  Lin Shu 252–53, 258

  Li Qingzhao 549–50

  Liu Binyan 399

  Liu Shaoqi 369, 384, 400

  Liu Shilong 552

  Liu Xia 429

  Liu Xiaobo 8, 417–30, 512, 558

  Liu Xizai 313, 358

  Li Xiannian 400

  Li Zhi 311

  Longfellow (H.W.) 454

  Lon Nol 414

  Loti (Pierre) 91–92, 433, 512

  Louis XVIII 78

  Louis-Philippe 78

  Lu Xun 251, 314, 375, 392, 475, 490, 552

  Lyautey (Louis Hubert) 50

  MacCarthy (Desmond) 199

  Magellan 8, 441, 444, 446–50, 512, 562

  Mallarmé (Stephane) 76, 147–48, 258–59, 481

  Malraux (André) 7, 84, 147, 166–73, 204, 250, 471, 510, 522, 531, 542–43

  Manceron (Gilles) 87

  Mandelstam (Nadezhda) 372

  Manet (Edouard) 481

  Mann (Thomas) 137, 146, 486

  Mao Zedong 8, 167, 228, 252, 259, 299, 383, 398–99, 409, 416, 511

  Marcus Aurelius 530

  Maria-Theresa of Austria 56

  Maritain (Jacques) 416

  Marteilhe (Jean) 433, 559

  Martin, (Jean-Pierre) 217, 220

  Martin du Gard (Hélène) 533

  Martin du Gard (Roger) 115, 120, 126–27, 130–133, 135, 140, 142, 145–46, 154, 158–60, 162, 524–27, 530, 533–35, 537–41

  Marx (Brothers) 525

  Marx (Karl) 155, 157, 181, 275, 299, 314, 387, 389, 393–94, 398–99, 401–2, 416, 500, 558

  Masefield (John) 437–38

  Mason (H.) 515

  Massignon (Louis) 108

  Masson (André) 346

  Matisse (H.) 354

  Maugham (Somerset) 269

  Maupassant (Guy de) 266

  Mauriac (François) 115, 120, 204, 207, 526, 531–32, 541

  Mawson (Sir Douglas) 46, 261–62

  Ma Zhiyuan 336

  McCahon (Colin) 354

  McCarthy (Mary) 235

  Melville (H.) 274, 434, 453

  Meng Haoran 339

  Merton (Thomas) 329, 554

  Michaux (Henri) 7, 147, 211–31, 235, 246, 479–80, 510, 545–47

  Michelangelo 343, 493

  Michelet (Jules) 261, 434

  Mi Fu 297, 341–42, 550

  Miłosz (Czesław) 49, 429

  Milton (John) 20

  Minford (John) 521

  Mirsky (Jonathan) 399

  Mitterrand (François) 107, 242, 553

  Moitessier (Bernard) 434, 559

  Molière 18, 143

  Monet (Claude) 495

  Monfreid (Daniel de) 88

  Montaigne 143, 156, 228, 240, 261, 526

  Montesquieu 251, 322–23

  Montherlant (Henry de) 23–24, 202, 235, 513

  Morand (Paul) 55

  More (Thomas) 304

  Morrison (Dr. G.E.) 94, 511

  Mortimer (John) 193

  Mote (F.W.) 299–300

  Mother Teresa 31–37, 39–40

  Mounier (E.) 182

  Mozart 41, 55–56, 60, 69, 111, 209, 484, 514, 536

  Muggeridge (Malcolm) 183

  Mukerji (D.J.) 37

  Murat (J.) 485

  Murray (Les) 43

  Nabokov (Dmitri) 233, 237

  Nabokov (Vera) 233, 235–36

  Nabokov (Vladimir) 7, 22–24, 166, 168–69, 203, 232–37, 246, 248, 471, 500, 513, 543

  Nadeau (Maurice) 350, 555–57

  Napoléon 80, 186, 384, 485

  Napoléon III (Louis Bonaparte) 79–80

  Needham (Joseph) 93, 362

  Nekrich (A.) 49

  Newman (John Henry) 12, 40, 87, 179

  Nicholas I 502

  Nichols (Mike) 472

  Nietzsche (F.) 313, 479

  Nin (Anaïs) 471

  Nixon (Richard) 367

  Ni Zan 357

  O’Connor (Flannery) 114, 165

  Olivier (Laurence) 144

  Orwell (George) 7, 49, 167, 174–89, 242, 268, 279, 323, 377, 457, 543–44

  O’Shaughnessy (Eileen) 175, 180–81, 187

  Ossietsky (Carl von) 429

  Ovid 535

  Pascal (B.) 58, 143, 228, 418, 538

  Pasternak (B.) 245

  St. Paul 37, 198, 490

  Paulhan (J.) 109, 255

  Peng Dehuai 385

  Peng Zhen 392

  Pessoa (F.) 245

  Pétain (Ph.) 158

  St. Peter 497–99

  Picasso (P.) 194, 310, 345, 348, 354,
556

  Pigafetta (A.) 447, 450

  Pirsig (R.) 354

  Pius XII 108

  Plato 44, 478

  Poe (E.A.) 258

  Pol Pot 410–13, 416

  Pontius Pilate 51–52

  Porto-Riche (Georges de) 116

  Pound (Ezra) 335, 389, 555

  Poussin (Nicolas) 534

  Powys (J.C.) 441

  Presley (Elvis) 35

  Pretzel (R.) 49

  Prévost (J.) 119, 526

  Proust (Marcel) 78, 84, 117, 144, 147, 202, 240, 251, 261, 268, 276, 350, 520, 526, 530, 538, 556–57

  Pushkin (A.) 84, 522

  Qian Mu 552

  Qian Zhongshu 554

  Qin (Duke of) 44

  Qin Shihuang 384

  Raban (Jonathan) 560–62

  Rabassa (G.) 258

  Rabelais (François) 18, 228, 240, 255, 433–34, 512

  Racine 62, 143

  Raphael 251, 551

  Rembrandt 145, 250

  Renan (E.) 158

  Renard (Jules) 249, 522

  Revel (J.F.) 107, 238–44

  Reverdy (I.) 478

  Reynolds (J.) 561

  Richter (S.) 310

  Rider Haggard (H.) 253

  Riefenstahl (L.) 501

  Rilke (R.M.) 98, 115, 245, 260

  Rivière (J.) 115

  Robb (Graham) 61, 64, 66–68, 71, 76, 83, 85, 515, 517–19

  Rodin (Auguste) 65

  Romains (Jules) 115

  Rossellini (R.) 28–29

  Rousseau (J.-B.) 514

  Rousseau (J.-J.) 55, 265, 275, 487

  Roy (Claude) 520, 557

  Rubens (P.-P.) 80, 354

  Sackville-West (V.) 350

  Said (Edward) 360

  Saint-Clair (M.) 163, 528–29, 533, 542

  Sainte-Beuve (Ch. A.) 84, 120, 520, 556

  Salazar (A. de O.) 491

  Salinger (J.D.) 259

  Santayana (G.) 43

  Sartre (J.-P) 147, 168, 182, 341, 473–74, 516, 529, 543

  Schlumberger (J.) 115, 127, 133–35, 146–49, 157, 159, 161, 163–64, 268, 525, 532, 536–37, 539–41

  Scott (Walter) 253, 266

  Segalen (A.J.) 87, 522

  Segalen (V.) 7, 86–99, 288–89, 295, 509, 522–23, 549

  Segalen (Y.) 86, 98–99

  Seurat (G.) 161

  Shackleton (E.H.) 262

  Shaffer (Peter) 209

  Shakespeare 18, 62, 143, 253, 261, 316–17, 474–75, 486, 515

  Shaw (G.B.) 30, 55, 100, 102, 107, 109

  Shelley 456

  Sheridan (A.) 114–15, 128, 130, 134, 143, 148, 164, 524–26, 528, 530–32, 535, 539–40, 542

  Shostakovich (D.) 249, 502

  Signac (Paul) 161

  Simenon (G.) 7, 46, 64, 147, 202–10, 248, 257–58, 265, 277, 510, 515, 538

  Singer (I.B.) 202

  Smedley (A.) 272, 386

  Snow (C.P.) 326

  Snow (E.) 383, 386

  Sollers (Philippe) 377

  Solzhenitsyn (A.) 372

  Son Sen 412

  Souvarine (B.) 169, 543

  Speer (A.) 380, 504–5

 

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