Simon Leys - The Hall of Uselessness - Collected Essays

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

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