by Tim Parks
11, 19 S. Mallarmé, Sur U évolution Littéraire, in Oeuvres Complètes, éd. Mondor and Jean-Aubry, p. 867.
11, 28 Dante, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, I Inferno, trans. J. Sinclair (New York, Oxford University Press, 1939), p. 75
12, 6 Ibid., p. 77
12, 27 Dante, Inferno, op. cit., Canto V, 11. 28-36
13, 6 Ibid., Canto V, IL 88-93
14, 6 Ibid., Canto XXVIII, 1. 48
15, 9 Ibid., Canto XIX, 11. 10-12
16, 16 Ibid., Canto XXXIV, IL 30-1
16, 24 Ibid., p. 619
17, 2 VArena, Verona, 9 October 2000
17, 18 Dante, Inferno, op. cit., Canto XVIII, 11. 134-5
18, 12 Ibid., p. xxix 18, 25 Ibid, p. 473 18, 28 Ibid, p. 103
18, 31 Ibid., Canto XX, 1. 28
18, 33 Ibid., Canto XX, 1. 28 (trans. Hollander)
19, 1 Ibid., Canto XX (trans. Sinclair, op. cit.), p. 251 19, 25 Ibid., Canto XX, 1. 28 (trans. Sayers, op. cit.)
19, 32 Dante, Inferno, op. cit., Canto XII, 11. 29-30
20, 7 Ibid., Canto XII, 11. 41-5
20, 9 Ibid., Canto III, 1. 6
21, 3 Ibid., Canto XVI, 1. 44
21, 5 Ibid., pp. 288-9
22, 11 Samuel Beckett, Watt (London, Calder & Boyars, 1972), pp. 154-5
The Universal Gentleman
23, 2 J.L. Borges, Selected Non-Fictions (New York, Viking Penguin, 1999), p. 7 23, 5 Ibid., p. 8 23, 10 Ibid., p. 484
25, 1 Ibid., p. 3
25, 6 Loc. cit.
25, 16 Ibid., p. 250
25, 18 Ibid., p. 75
25, 19 Ibid., p. 282
25, 22 Ibid., p. 291
27, 4 J.L. Borges, Collected Fictions, trans. Andrew Hurley (New
York, Viking Penguin, 1998), p. 88
27, 8 Ibid., p. 91
27, 9 Loc. cit.
27, 15 Ibid., p. 94
27, 21 Loc. cit.
27, 25 Ibid., p. 95
28, 19 Ibid., p. 101
28, 28 Ibid., p. 192
28, 28 Ibid., p. 191
29, 3 E. Cioran, La chute dans le temps, (Paris, Gallimard, 1964),
p. 181
29, 11 J.L. Borges, Collected Fictions, op. cit., p. 193
31, 9 J.L. Borges, Selected Non-Fictions, op. cit., p. 210
31, 20 Loc. cit.
31, 31 Ibid., p. 211
32, 2 Loc. cit.
32, 12 Loc. cit.
32, 13 Loc. cit.
32, 17 Loc. cit.
33, 8 Ibid., p. 240
33, 17 Loc. cit.
34, 11 Ibid., p. 417
34, 25 Ibid., p. 425
35, 9 Ibid., p. 481
35, 9 Ibid., p. 195
35, 30 Ibid., p. 427
36, 8 Ibid., p. 68
36, 14 Ibid., p. 219
36, 16 Loc. cit.
36, 21 Ibid. p. 19
36, 23 Ibid., p. 84
37, 10 Ibid., p. 374 37, 16 Ibid., p. 313
37, 34 J.L. Borges, Selected Poems, trans, various (New York, Viking
Penguin, 1999), p. 95
38, 2 J. Woodall, Borges, A Life (London, Hodder & Stoughton
1996), p. 177
38, 26 Ibid., p. 219
39, 3 Selected Non-Fictions, op. cit., p. 332 39, 10 Ibid., p. 344
39, 16 Ibid., p. 110 39, 21 Ibid., p. 346
39, 26 Ibid., p. 490
40, 3 Ibid., pp. 513-14 42, 25 Ibid., p. 311
42, 26 S. Beckett, Malone Dies (London, Calder & Boyars, 1975),
p. 7 42, 29 H. Green, Loving, Living, Party Going (London, Penguin,
1993), p. 464
Here Comes Salman
45, 3 A. Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms, trans. RJ. Holling-
dale (London, Penguin, 1970), p. 165
46, 19 S. Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (London, Granta
Books, 1990), p. 109
47, 11 S. Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet (London, Viking,
1999), p. 299
47, 24 Ibid., p. 303
48, 8 S. Rushdie in interview with John Banville, New Tork Review
of Books, 4 March 1993 48, 14 Loc. cit.
48, 24 H. Mantel in New Tork Review of Books, 16 February 1995
49, 15 P.B. Shelley, A Defence of Poetry, London, 1840
50, 19 S. Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, op. cit., p. 123
51, 8 Ibid., p. 21 52, 32 Ibid., p. 75 52, 34 Ibid., p. 122 54, 13 Ibid., p. 23 54, 23 Ibid., p. 84
54, 27 Ibid., p. 90
55, 3 Ibid., p. 123
55, 26 Ibid., p. 215
56, 4 Ibid., p. 23 56, 14 Ibid., p. 99
56, 27 Ibid., p. 147
57, 5 Ibid., p. 148
57, 26 Ibid., p. 324
58, 11 R Calasso, Ka (New York, Knopf, 1998), p. 102 58, 14 Ibid., pp. 102-3
58, 34 J. Kerouac, On the Road (London, Penguin, 1991), p. 38
59, 2 Loc. cit.
59, 5 S. Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, op. cit., p. 287
59, 16 Ibid., p. 497
59, 31 Ibid., p. 498
60, 15 Ibid., p. 334
Surviving Giacomo
61, 5 R Damiani, AlVapparir del vero, vita di Giaeomo Leopardi
(Milan, Mondadori, 1992), p. 11
62, 15 Ibid., p. 22
62, 17 Loc. cit.
63, 15 G. Leopardi, Zibaldone (Milan, Mondadori, 1997), p. 85
63, 17 Ibid., 17 December 1819
64, 2 G. Leopardi, Le opérette morali (Milan, Garzanti, 1998), p. xii 64, 3 Loc. cit.
64, 22 R Damiani, AlVapparir del vero, op. cit. p. 192 64, 28 Ibid., p. 191
64, 29 Ibid., p. 194
64, 32 Ibid., p. 195
65, 20 I. Origo, Leopardi, A Study in Solitude (New York, Books &
Co., 1999), p. xvii 65, 25 D.S. Carne-Ross, ‘The Strange Case of Leopardi’, New York Review of Books, 29 January 1987
65, 29 Loc. cit.
66, 5 I. Origo, Leopardi, op. cit., p. 177 66, 10 Loc. cit.
66, 13 D.S. Carne-Ross, op. cit.
66, 18 G. Leopardi, Le operetti morali, op. cit., p. xxxiv
66, 21 I. Origo, Leopardi, op. cit., p. 222
66, 32 R Damiani, AlVapparir del vero, op. cit., p. 423, also
G. Leopardi, Zibaldone, op. cit., 3085)
67, 3 Loc. cit.
67, 24 S.T. Coleridge, ‘Dejection: an Ode’ 67, 26 Loc. cit.
67, 27 G. Leopardi, Le opérette morali, op. cit., p. 295
68, 21 I. Origo, Images and Shadows, (London, John Murray, 1970),
p. 3
69, 3 R. Damiani, AlVapparir del vero, op. cit., p. 421 69, 4 Loc. cit.
69, 14 I. Origo, Images and Shadows, op. cit., p. 173
69, 26 G. Leopardi, II sogno
70, 25 E. Cioran, ‘The Tree of Life’, The Lall into Time (Chicago,
Quadrangle Books, 1970)
71, 13 I. Origo, Leopardi, op. cit. p. 326 (also G. Leopardi,
Zibaldone op. cit., 3085)
71, 16 Loc. cit (quoting G. Leopardi, Amore e morte)
72, 15 I. Origo, Leopardi, op. cit., p. 224
72, 19 I. Origo, Images and Shadows, op. cit., p. 259
72, 30 G. Leopardi, Zibaldone, op. cit, pp. 259-60
75, 3 G. Leopardi, ‘A Silvia’
77, 2 G. Leopardi, ‘To Silvia’, trans. J. Galassi, T. Parks, New Tork
Review of Books, 23 March 2000 77, 16 G. Leopardi, ‘L’infinitô’ (original Italian: ‘E’ il naufragar m’è
dolce in questo mare’)
77’, 25 G. Leopardi, Zibaldone, op. cit., p. 60
79, 11 Ibid., pp. 259-60
79, 27 I. Origo, Leopardi, op. cit., p. 292
79, 28 Ibid., p. 283
80, 4 Ibid., p. 270 80, 8 Ibid., p. 35
The Hunter
81, 6 M. de Cervantes, Don Quixote, trans. J.M. Cohen (London,
Penguin, 1950), p. 937
81, 10 Loc. cit.
81, 13 G. Leopardi, Zibaldone, Mondadori, 17 Dec 1823 81, 15 E. Cioran, La chut
e dans le temps (Paris, Gallimard, 1964), p. 166 81, 19 M. de Cervantes, Don Quixote, op. cit., p. 939
83,6 G.W. Sebald, Vertigo (New York, New Directions, 2000), p. 3 83, 9 Ibid., p. 33 83, 13 Ibid., p. 141
83, 22 Ibid., p. 5
84, 1 I. Caivino, The Road to San Giovanni (London, Vintage, 1993), pp. 87-8
84, 4 G.W. Sebald, Vertigo, op. cit., p. 3
84, 10 G.W. Sebald, The Emigrants, (London, Harvill Press, 1996), quotation placed before first story.
84, 18 G.W. Sebald, Vertigo, op. cit., p. 6
84, 24 Ibid., p. 11
84, 33 Ibid., p. 13
85, 12 Ibid., p. 21 85, 15 Loc. cit. 85, 17 Ibid., p. 22 85, 18 Ibid., p. 28 85, 19 Loc. cit. 85, 21 Ibid., p. 29
86 86 86 87 87 87 90 90 92 92 92 92 92 93 6 Ibid., p. 141
11 Ibid., p. 171
24 Ibid., p. 228
6 Ibid., p. 52
15 Ibid., p. 142
26 Ibid., p. 59 (trans, from the Italian, T. Parks)
15 Ibid., p. 62
18 R.M. Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, letter of 16 July
18 G.W. Sebald, Vertigo, op. cit., p. 63
5 Ibid., p. 79
15 Ibid., p. 131
4 Ibid., pp. 103
13 Ibid., p. 252
17 Ibid., p. 1
30 Ibid., p. 205
33 Ibid., p. 206
16 Ibid., pp. 207-8
Different Worlds
95, 25 T. Parks, Cara Massimina (London, Vintage, 1999), p. 11
97, 9 These and other remarks in M. Kundera, Testaments Betrayed, trans. L. Asher (New York, Harper Collins, 1995). See in particular the essay on Kafka.
97, 14 D.H. Lawrence, Foreword to Women in Love (Thomas Seltzer, 1920)
97, 16 M. Proust, Contre Sainte-Beuve (Paris, Gallimard, 1978),
p. 225 97, 24 M. Kundera, Testaments Betrayed, op. cit., p. 110
97, 26 Loc. cit.
98, 18 M. Kundera, The Art of the Novel (London, Faber & Faber, 1990), pp. 129-30
99, 13 D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love (London, Penguin, 1982), p. 53 99, 22 Ibid., pp. 113, 57, 430, 396, 397
100, 2 Donne Innamorate, trans. A. delPOrto (Milan, Rizzoli, 1989), pp. 94, 24, 499, 455
101, 7 D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love, op. cit., p. 579
103, 31 S. Beckett, ‘Dante … Bruno. Vico … Joyce’. In I can’t go on, Fil£(o on (New York, Grove Weidenfeld, 1976), p. 117
104, 18 See Fondi Alberto Mondadori, Arnaldo Mondadori, Autori, Fascicolo Vittorini. Available for consultation at the Mondadori publishing house, Milan 106, 9 R. Calasso, Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia (Milan, Adelphi,
1988), p. 67 108, 5 R. Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, trans. T. Parks (New York, Knopf, 1993), p. 51
111, 9 R. Calasso, Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia, op. cit., p. 67
112, 11 R. Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, op. cit., p. 51
Sentimental Education
117, 28 V. Seth, An Unequal Music (London, Viidng, 1999), p. 166
117, 30 Ibid., p. 82
118, 12 Ibid., p. 3
118, 29 Ibid., p. 83
119, 24 Ibid., p. 38
119, 34 Ibid., p. 40
120, 4 Loc. cit.
121, 3 Ibid., p. 71
121, 21 Ibid., p. 62
122, 4 Ibid., p. 71
123, 23 Ibid., pp. 79-80
124, 11 Ibid., p. 136
124, 24 Ibid., p. 125
125, 15 Ibid., p. 385
126, 10 New Tork Review of Books, 27 May 1993
126, 29 V. Seth, An Unequal Music, op. cit., p. 90
127, 1 Ibid., p. 43
127, 8 Ibid., p. 63
127, 11 Ibid., p. 125
128, 3 Ibid., p. 306
128, 8 J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace (London, Seeker & Warburg, 1999), p. 181
128, 30 J. Donne, quoted from V. Seth, An Unequal Music, op. cit., unnumbered page before text.
129, 13 V. Seth, An Unequal Music, op. cit., p. 239 129, 19 Ibid., p. 380
129, 24 Ibid., p. 381
A Chorus of Cruelty
131, 5 E. Cioran, La chute dans le temps (Paris, Gallimard, 1964), pp.142-3
131, 22 G. Verga, Cavalleria rusticana and Other Stories (London, Penguin, 1999), p. xxiv
133, 33 G. Verga, Little Novels of Sicily (Vermont, Steerforth Press, 2000), p. vii
134, 7 Verga quoted in Encyclopaedia Britannica 134, 8 G. Verga, Little Novels of Sicily, op. cit., p. viii
134, 17 G. Verga, Tutte le novelle, Vol. /(Milan, Mondadori, 1998),
p. 99 136, 19 Ibid., p. v
136, 21 G. Verga, I Malavoglia (Milan, Mondadori, 1999), p. vii
137, 18 G. Verga, Tutte le novelle, Vol. I, op. cit., p. 29
137, 33 Ibid., p. 16
138, 12 Loc. cit.
138, 31 G. Verga, Cavalleria rusticana, op. cit., p. xii
139, 7 G. Verga, Little Novels of Sicily, op. cit., p. 81
139, 13 G. Verga, Cavalleria rusticana, op. cit., p. 173
140, 4 G. Verga, Tutte le novelle, Vol. I, op. cit., p. 282 140, 12 G. Verga, Cavalleria rusticana, op. cit., p. 173
140, 16 S. Beckett, First Love, quoted from Collected Shorter Prose, 1945-80, (London, Calder, 1984)
140, 20 G. Verga, Little Novels of Sicily, op. cit., p. 81
140, 27 G. Verga, Cavalleria rusticana, op. cit., p. 173
141, 2 G. Verga, Little Novels of Sicily, op. cit., p. 81 141, 8 G. Verga, Cavalleria rusticana, op. cit., p. 74 141, 9 G. Verga, Little Novels of Sicily, op. cit., p. 82 141, 9 G. Verga, Lutte le novelle, Vol. I, op. cit., p. 283 141, 12 G. Verga, Cavalleria rusticana, op. cit., p. 174 141, 16 G. Verga, Little Novels of Sicily, op. cit., p. 82 141, 26 G. Verga, Cavalleria rusticana, op. cit., p. 176
141, 30 Ibid., p. 75
142, 2 G. Verga, Little Novels of Sicily, op. cit., p. 86 142, 3 G. Verga, Lutte le novelle, op. cit., p. 286
142, 34 G. Verga, I Malavoglia, op. cit., p. 89
143, 4 Loc. cit.
143, 14 Ibid., p. 75
144, 30 G. Verga, Cavalleria rusticana, op. cit., p. 89
144, 32 G. Verga, Lutte le novelle, Vol. I, op. cit., p. 174
145, 7 Ibid., p. 168
145, 26 L. Dumont, ‘La maladie totalitaraine’ in Essais sur Lindividua lisme, (Paris, Editions du Seuil, 1983)
146, 3 G. Verga, I Malavoglia, op. cit., p. xv
147, 6 G. Verga, Cavalleria rusticana, op. cit., p. xi 147, 17 G. Verga, Lutte le novelle, Vol. I, op. cit., p. 174
Voltaire’s Coconuts
151, 7 I. Buruma, Voltaire’s Coconuts (London, Weidenfeld &
Nicholson, 1999), p. 176
151, 18 Ibid., p. 208
153, 27 Ibid., p. 158
154, 10 Ibid., p. 164 154, 16 Ibid., p. 60 157, 22 Ibid., p. 53
157, 30 Ibid., p. 279
158, 16 D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love (London, Penguin, 1982), p. 430
158, 31 I. Buruma, Voltaire’s Coconuts, op. cit., p. 54
159, 5 Ibid., p. 69 159, 18 Loc. cit.
159, 32 Ibid., p. 23
160, 1 Ibid., p. 98
160, 8 Ibid., p. 202
161, 3 F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (London, Penguin,
1990), p. 183
161, 10 I. Buruma, Voltaire’s Coconuts, op. cit., p. 98
162, 5 Ibid., p. 120 162, 16 Ibid., p. 122
162, 29 Ibid., p. 119
163, 22 G. Leopardi, Discorso sopra lo stato présente dei costumi
degVitaliani (Milan, Feltrinelli, 1991), p. 47
163, 32 Ibid., p. 51
Literary Trieste
167, 19 J. Cary, A Ghost in Trieste (University of Chicago Press,
1993), pp. 242-3
168, 6 Ibid., p. 137
168, 12 Ibid., p. 138
169, 29 Ibid., pp. 4-5
170, 19 Ibid., p. 9 170, 26 Loc. cit. 170, 29 Loc. cit.
172, 12 Ibid., pp. 140-1
172, 19 Ibid., p. 87
172, 25 Ibid., p. 89
173, 24 Ibid., p. 159
174, 2 Ibid., p. 133 174, 25 Ibid., p. 149
174, 30 J. Joyce, Ulysses (London, Penguin, 1973), p. 704
175, 27 J. Cary, A Ghost in Trieste, op. cit., p. 151
176, 13 P. Celan, Gesammelte Werke (Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 1983), vol. 3, p. 175
176, 33 J. Gary, A Ghost in Trieste, op. cit., p. 148
177, 14 I. Svevo, La coscienza di Zeno (Milan, Mondadori, 1988), p. 382
Party Going
180, 10 H. Green, Party Going (London, Vintage, 2001), pp. 6- 7
182, 3 Ibid., p. 7
182, 14 H. Green, Surviving} The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green
(London, Harville, 1993), p. 245
183, 13 H. Green, Party Going, op. cit., p. 64
184, 19 H. Green, Surviving, op. cit., p. 193
184, 28 H. Green, Party Going, op. cit., p. 56
185, 18 Ibid., p. 59
186, 2 Ibid., p. 51 186, 4 Ibid., p. 103
186, 6 Ibid., p. 21
187, 6 Ibid., p. 1 187, 10 Ibid., p. 2 187, 23 Ibid., p. 1 187, 25 Ibid., p. 95
187, 33 Ibid., p. 83
188, 12 Ibid., p. 105
188, 31 Ibid., p. 1
189, 14 Ibid., p. 19
190, 7 H. Green, Surviving, op. cit., p. 237
191, 10 H. Green, Party Going, op. cit., p. 140
The Enchanted Fort
193, 3 D.H. Lawrence, Apocalypse (London, Penguin, 1995), p. 60
193, 7 Ibid., p. 61
193, 22 D. Buzzati, Il deserto dei Tartari (Milan Mondadori, 1989 - see back cover)
194, 4 Ibid., p. 9
195, 2 D. Buzzati, The Tartar Steppe (London, Penguin, 2000), p. 1 195, 10 Loc. cit.
198, 6 D. Buzzati, II deserto dei Tartan, op. cit., p. 57
199, 1 Ibid., p. 23
In the Locked Ward
201, 2 J. Neugeboren, Imagining Robert (New York, William Mor row), p. 227
201, 11 Ibid., p. 41
201, 20 Ibid., p. 18
201, 25 Ibid., p. 62
201, 26 Ibid., pp. 34, 51
202, 3 Ibid., p. 62
202, 15 Ibid., p. 215
203, 24 Ibid., p. 44 203, 28 Ibid., p. 91 203, 31 Ibid., p. 92
205, 21 Loc. cit.
206, 1 Ibid., p. 132
206, 6 J. Neugeboren, Transforming Madness (New York, William
Morrow, 1999), p. 118 206, 31 Ibid., p. 273
206, 33 Ibid., p. 274
207, 11 Ibid., p. 275 207, 16 Loc. cit.
207, 31 Loc. cit.
208, 18 G. Gabbard, ‘The Ungrateful Patient’, Congress for Psycho-