The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays (New York Review Books Classics) (77 page)

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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

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

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