Simon Leys - The Hall of Uselessness - Collected Essays

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

Spender (S.) 183, 190, 544

Staël (Madame de) 55

Stalin 169, 186, 398, 416, 525, 551

Stannard (M.) 190, 192–93, 196–98

Steinbeck (John) 255, 267

Stendhal 60, 126, 143, 228, 275, 313, 358, 501, 535, 557

Stéphane (R.) 170, 172, 475, 543

Sterne (Laurence) 69, 262, 279

Stevenson (R.L.) 253, 267, 437, 560–61

Styron (W.) 255

Suarès (A.) 123, 525

Su Dongpo 332–33, 340, 434

Sun Yat-sen 96

Swift (J.) 144, 504

Sykes (Christopher) 194–96, 544

Tabarly (Éric) 434, 437, 559, 561

Tang Taizong 296–97

Tanizaki Jun’ichiro 281

Tao Yuanming 349, 352, 496

Teniers (David) 481

Teresa de Avila 30

Terrill (Ross) 366–74

Thackeray (W.M.) 18

Thomas Aquinas 101

Thoreau (H.D.) 311

Tolstoy (Leo) 82, 145, 202, 222, 248, 253, 258, 472, 505, 521, 534

Tran (Ysé) 220

Trollope (A.) 79

Trotsky (Leon) 157, 171, 416

Tu Lien-che 553

Turgenev (I.) 462, 504–5

Turner (Ted) 29

Twain (Mark) 495

Unamuno (Miguel de) 25–26, 30, 316, 484, 513

Valéry (Paul) 115, 126, 136, 147, 259, 278, 281, 434, 518, 525

Vallotton (F.) 535

Van Doren (Mark) 26–28, 513

Van Gogh (V.) 481

Van Gulik (Robert) 550, 556

Van Istendael (Geert) 515

Van Ostade (A.) 481

Van Rysselberghe (Elisabeth) 129, 131–32, 139, 152, 162

Van Rysselberghe (Maria—“Tiny Lady”) 114, 117, 122–24, 126, 129, 131–32, 134, 136–37, 139–40, 144, 146–49, 152, 156, 158–62, 165, 524, 526–29, 531, 534, 537, 539–41

Van Rysselberghe (Théo) 161–62

Vargas Llosa (Mario) 243–44, 262

Vasari (G.) 355

Verhaeren (E.) 115, 162, 524

Verne (Jules) 82

Vialatte (A.) 253–54

Vidal (Gore) 472

Vigny (Alfred de) 377

Villa (Pancho) 487

Virgil 143, 434, 535

Volkov (S.) 517–18, 522

Voltaire 62, 143, 264–65, 515

Vuillard (E.) 535

Wagner (Richard) 56, 495, 514

Waley (Arthur) 61, 247, 253, 258, 385

Wang Gungwu 551

Wang Wei 332–33, 339, 352

Wang Xizhi 295–97, 552

Wang Zhihuan 351

Warburg (F.) 178

Waugh (Auberon) 196, 544

Waugh (Evelyn) 7, 110, 190–201, 248, 257, 279, 505, 510, 544

Wei Jingsheng 418

Weil (Simone) 359

Welch (Holmes) 553

Welles (Orson) 473

Wells (H.G.) 107

Wen Tianxiang 342–43

Wen Tingyun 336

Wen Tong 340

Wharton (Edith) 535

White (Patrick) 20, 475–76

Wiesel (E.) 312

Wilde (Oscar) 62, 119

Wilson (A.N.) 482

Wilson (Edmund) 168, 265, 435, 471–72, 543, 560–61

Wittgenstein (L.) 327, 359

Woolf (V.) 350

Wu Daozi 344

Xiao Yi 552

Xun Zi 294, 551

Yan Hui 319

Zhang Yanyuan 338, 550

Zhao Mengfu 357