The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays (New York Review Books Classics)
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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