Phantoms on the Bookshelves (15 page)

Shonagon, Sei,
The Pillow Book
, trans. M. McKinney, (Penguin, 2006, and various other editions)

Spitzer, Leo,
Linguistics and Literary History: essays in stylistics
, (Princeton University Press, 1948)

Starobinski, Jean,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Transparency and Obstruction
, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (University of Chicago Press, 1988)

Stendhal, [Henri Beyle]
Memoirs of an Egotist
, trans. Andrew Brown (Hesperus, 2003 and other versions)

Stendhal,
Life of Henry Brulard
, trans. John Sturrock (Penguin, 1995, and other editions)

Stendhal,
Scarlet and Black,
trans. M.R.B Shaw (Penguin, 1993, and other editions)

Svevo, Italo,
Confessions of Zeno
, trans. Beryl de Zoete (Penguin, 1976)

Tanpinar, Ahmet Hamdi,
The Time Regulation Institute
, trans. Ender Gurol (Turko Tatar Press, 2002)

Teyssèdre, Bernard,
L'Histoire de l'art vue du Grand Siècle
[Art history as seen from the
grand siècle
—seventeenth-century France] (René Julliard, n.d.)

Torga, Miguel,
Arche,
trans. into French, Claire Cayron (PUF, 1980)

Torga, Miguel,
En franchise intérieure, pages de journal 1933–1977
[Intimate frankness, pages from my journal], translated into French by Claire Cayron (Aubier Montagne, 1982)

Tristan, Frédéric,
Le Monde à l'envers
[The world upside down] (Hachette, 1980)

Trollope, Anthony,
An Autobiography
(Oxford University Press, World's Classics, 1980)

Veyne, Paul,
Writing History: essay on epistemology
, trans. Mina Moore-Rinvolucri (Wesleyan, 1984)

Vian, Boris,
Froth on the Daydream
, trans. S. Chapman (Quartet, 1988)

Vicenot, Claude,
Essai de grammaire slovène
[Essay on Slovenian grammar] (Mladinska Knijga, 1975)

“Walter”,
My Secret Life
, 11 vols. Originally published anonymously (Amsterdam, 1880s); (and various editions, partial or complete; usually now attributed to Henry Spencer Ashbee, author or editor)

Walter, Henriette and Avenas, Pierre,
L'Etonnante Histoire des noms des mammifères
[The amazing story of the names of mammals] (Robert Laffont, 2003)

Williams, Tennessee,
Four Plays: Summer and Smoke/Orpheus Descending/Suddenly Last Summer/Period of Adjustment
(Signet Classic, 1997, and other editions)

Zorzi, Ludovico,
Représentation picturale et représentation théatrale
[Pictorial and theatrical representation] (Gérard Montfort, 1998)

¹
Translator's note: The Italian writers Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini published many books jointly, often signing as F & L; Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac did the same in France; Henri Zerner and Charles Rosen co-authored some works on art history, and Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron jointly wrote several sociological studies.

²
See Bibliography. This book is today usually attributed to Gladys Huntington.

³
Harold Bloom in the
New York Review of Books
, September 24, 2009, writes that Byron was born “with a lame left foot.” (J. B.)

⁴
Now under another title:
Une de perdue, dix de retrouvées: chiffres et nombres dans les expressions de la langue francaise
, 2004.