The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays (New York Review Books Classics) (78 page)

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

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