Album: Unpublished Correspondence and Texts

  Bouvard et Pécuchet, sentence 1: anacoluthon of two truths, 217–18; disconnection, 215–16; ellipsis and catalysis, 216–17; form (in traditional sense), 215; truth/bêtise, 218

  Bouvard et Pécuchet, sentence 2: the doxa, 221; form (in traditional sense), 218–19; metonymy, 219; the voices, 219–21

  Bouvard et Pécuchet, sentence 3: form, 221–22; kitsch, 222–23, 234; parading (on display), 223, 234

  Bouvard et Pécuchet, sentence 4: analysis/synthesis split, 224–25; closure, 224, 233; example, 224

  Bouvard et Pécuchet, sentence 5: allocution, 227–28; anacoluthon, 226–27; example, 225–26

  Bouvard et Pécuchet, sentence 6: cleavage, 228; copy, 229

  Bouvard et Pécuchet, sentence 7: disappointment, 230–31; enumeration, 223, 230–32, 234; name and image with, 230; stereotype, 230

  Braudel, Fernand, 335n11

  Braunschweig, François, viii, 277, 322n44, 340n124

  Brecht, Bertolt, 96–97, 310n13, 318n88, 318n90, 318nn92–93, 336n46

  Brechtism: influence of, 239, 263; Théâtre populaire and, 90, 96–98, 318n82, 318n88, 336n46

  Bretécher, Claire, 280, 340n134

  Breton, André, 78, 329n188, 330n26

  Briggs, Kate, 297

  Brissaud (doctor), 311n33, 311n39, 313n85

  Brissaud, Jean, 13, 25, 27, 33, 51, 311n33

  Brøndal, Viggo, 269

  Brook, Peter, 336n45

  Brosse, Jacques, 157, 326n136

  Bruneau, Charles, 314nn3–4

  Brunet, Frédéric, 310n5

  Brunot, Ferdinand, 107

  Bryn Mawr College, 145–46, 324n77

  Buffet, Bernard, 323n71

  Buñuel, Luis, 163

  Bureau de l’Association, 21

  Burgelin, Olivier, 337n54

  Burke, William, 341n149

  Butel, Michel, 326n128

  Butlerov, M., 120

  Butor, Agnès, 324n83

  Butor, Cécile, 145, 324n79

  Butor, Marie-Jo, 145, 147, 152, 153, 154, 324n78

  Butor, Michel, 324n98, 324nn95–96, 325n116, 325n121, 328n177; academic life, 323n63, 323nn69–70, 324n77, 325n123, 335n20; Ford Foundation grant and, 325n102; friendship with, 180, 248, 255, 325n114; letters from, 145–47, 150–51, 152, 153; letters from Perros, G., 336n43, 337n60; letters to, 141–45, 146, 147–50, 151, 152–53, 154–56, 322n58, 323n74; novels and, 144, 324n75; with Perros and Klossowski, P., 238, 246, 247; with reviews, 324nn95–96

  Cahiers du cinema, Les, 73, 208

  Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure, 183

  Caillois, Roger, 199–200

  Calligaris, Contardo, 284

  Calvino, Italo, 175, 328n177

  Camus, Albert, xi, 312n78, 315n12, 334n2; letter from, 86, 316n41; “two pages” on, 314n105

  Camus, Catherine, 316n41

  Camus, Jean, 316n41

  Camus, Renaud, 281–84, 340n146, 341n149

  Canaletto, 341n151

  Canetti, Elias, 28

  Canetti, Georges, 312n66; letters to, 28–51; at Sanatorium des Étudiants de France, 28; with tuberculosis, work on, 312n58

  Canetti, Jacques, 28

  Canguilhem, Georges, 329n188

  Caravaggio, 175

  Carducci, Giosuè, 311n35

  Carlier, Robert, 86, 316n42

  Caron, 28–29, 30, 32, 36

  Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste, 210

  Cartesianism, 70

  Catachresis, 109

  Catalysis, ellipsis and, 216–17

  Catholicism, 7, 14, 49

  Cayrol, Jean, 315n25, 321nn34–35, 322n37; Écrire and, 322n50; Éditions du Seuil and, 137–38, 321n33; letter from, 81–82; letters to, 82, 132–36, 335n18; support from, 73, 81

  CED, 43, 312n66

  Censorship, 71, 270–71, 316n36

  Centre de Civilisation Française, 320n7, 320n11

  Centre des Communications de Masse, 173

  Centre d’Études des Communications de Masse, 323n64

  Centre Georges-Pompidou, 64, 319n103, 321n27

  Cerisy Colloquium, 136, 260, 284–85, 323n70, 338n75

  Certeau, Michel de, 315n24

  Chack, Paul, xi

  Chambre claire, La (Barthes, R.), 73, 204, 273, 296, 299, 342n175

  Chance, ideas as, 185

  Char, René, 334n1, 335nn3–4; letter to, 237–38; note from, 192, 193

  Chateaubriand, François-René de, 105

  Châtelet, François, 207, 330n28

  Chavassieux, Gilles, 319n102

  “Chemin du retour, Le” (Barthes, R.), 320n3

  Chemins de la liberté (Sartre), 312n79

  Chéreau, Patrice, 342n163

  Chessex family, 314n109

  China, 179, 282, 340n141

  Chomsky, Noam, 212, 216, 224

  Choses, Les (Perec), 261, 338n85

  Chrestomathy, 213

  Christianisme et la lutte des classes, Le (Berdiaff), 6

  Christianity, 49, 108; Christmas and, 10; nihilism and, 326n139; Paganism and, 7

  Christmas, 10, 244

  Christophe, 333n64

  Cicero, 151, 180

  Cixous, Hélène, 201

  Classical language: Flaubert and, 234; rhetoric and, 110

  Class science, 120

  Clauses, 215

  “Clearing,” the, 24, 311n48

  Cleavage, Flaubertian sentence and, 228

  Cliché, 14, 103, 109, 121

  Clinique Miremont, 313n95, 313n98

  Closure, Flaubertian sentence and, 224, 233

  Clouet, Jean, 210

  Club Français du Livre, 243, 318n85

  CNRS: association with, 86, 88; with fashion, work on, 318n84; grant from, 76–77, 239, 314n4, 314n19, 335n24, 335n30; lexicology and, 314n4, 315nn18–19

  Cocteau, Jean, 163, 192, 327n159

  “Codes,” 286, 341n154

  Cohen, Gustave, 311n34

  Cohen, René, 33, 42, 43, 45, 312n57

  Coiplet, Robert, 316n36, 322n48, 337n71

  Colin, Armand, 107

  Collège de France, 164, 170, 252, 285, 297, 321n24, 322n45, 342n162

  Combat (newspaper), 81–82, 124, 132, 320n2; Le Degré zéro de l’écriture in, 102, 315n22; relationship with, 315n12; S/Z in, 199

  Comédie-Française, 317n71

  “Comment s’en passer” (Barthes, R.), 320n5

  “Comment vivre ensemble,” 334n74

  Communications (review), 159, 180

  Communism, 9, 12, 49, 121, 122, 196, 314n8, 323n16

  Compagnon, Antoine, 309n1, 341n155, 341n157, 342n166; Cerisy Colloquium and, 284–85; letters to, 285–92

  Conrad, Joseph, 319n98

  Conseil, 310n9, 310n24

  Constant, Benjamin, 163

  Content: analysis of, 105; Hjelmslev and, 331n49; language with form and, 185–86

  Contes de Jacques Tournebroche (France), 5

  Contes de pluie et de lune (Akinari), 101

  Conti, Armand de Bourbon (Prince), 309n1

  Contrepoints (newspaper), 102, 114

  Copy, Flaubertian sentence, 215–16, 229, 234–35

  Cordier, Daniel, 283, 340n147

  Coréens, Les (Vinaver), 99, 100, 319n99, 319n101

  Corneilee, Pierre, 11, 12

  Cosmopolitanism, 121–22

  Coste, Claude, 331n32

  Coup de dés, Les (Mallarmé), 149

  Couperin, François, 338n80

  Criticism: historical and musical, 114; Lansonian, 103–5; Lévi-Strauss on, 327n165, 328n165; literary, 107, 113–14

  Critique (review), 156–64, 326n134

  Critique et vérité (Barthes, R.), 166; with Derrida, letter from, 274; with Des Forêts, letter from, 197; with Lacan, letter from, 197; with Le Clézio, letter from, 197–98; with Starobinski, J., letter from, 259–60

  Cultural attaché, in Romania, 114, 118–23

  Cultural club, 66

  Cultural-political meeting, 318n81

  Culture. See Department of Cultural Relations, Ministry of Foreign Aff
airs

  Curtius, Ernst Robert, 319n108

  Cyclones, Les (Roy), 317n53

  Dans la pluie giboyeuse (Char), 193

  Dante, 319n97, 343n189

  Darbon, François, 336n33

  David, Robert, 312n60, 312n62, 312n77, 337n54; friendship with, 36, 42, 52–53, 55; letters to, 51–63, 313n101, 314n106, 314n109, 320n1

  Davidsbündlertänze (Shumann), 8, 310n22

  Debussy, Claude, 2, 5

  Dedications, 340n133; Essais critiques, viii; Michelet, 83; Mythologies, 85, 189

  Deforges, Régine, 293

  De Gaulle, Charles, 177–78, 179, 329n187

  Degree zero, 79, 164, 219, 269

  Degrés (Butor, Michel), 144, 145, 323n74

  Degré zéro de l’écriture, Le (Barthes, R.), 132, 156, 201, 248, 297; “L’Artisanat du style” in, 210–11; Char and, 237; in Combat, 102, 315n22; Éditions du Seuil with, 73, 330n14; influence of, 170, 321n21; manuscript for, 315n13; publishing of, 73–82

  Deguy, Jean-Pierre, 161

  Deguy, Michel, 157, 161, 326n135, 327n149

  Delacroix, Henri, 311n40

  Delacroix, Michel, 17, 89, 311n40

  De la dignité du christianisme et de l’indignité des chrétiens (Berdiaff), 6, 310n13

  Delarge, Jean-Pierre, 150

  Deleuze, Gilles, 132

  Department of Cultural Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 69–70, 71, 72, 278, 314n5

  Depression, 15, 45, 56–57, 100, 232, 247, 280

  Deriaz, Philippe, 95

  Derrida, Jacques, 163, 269, 327n153, 327n155, 339n112–13; letters from, 274, 275–76; letters to, 274–75; writing and, 273

  Desanges, Paul, 310n6

  Descartes, René, 67, 104, 180–81, 210

  Des Forêts, Louis-René, 197, 320n10, 328n177

  Desire to write (scripturire), 299

  Despair, 45, 61, 319n97

  Desupernaturalization, literature and, 106–7

  Diabelli Variations (Beethoven), 209

  Dictatum, 212, 331n38

  Dictionary, 209, 230, 236

  Diderot, Denis, 235

  Di Dio, François, 330n17

  Diodorus of Siciliy, 310n14

  Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 212

  Dire et ne pas dire: Principes de sémantique linguistique (Ducrot), 217

  “Dire Racine” (Barthes, R.), 318n85, 323n68

  Disappointment: enumeration and, 232, 234; Flaubertian sentence and, 230–31; literature as, 300, 301

  Disconnection, Flaubertian sentence and, 214, 215–16

  Disintegration, 233–34. See also Anacoluthons

  “Divertissement in F Major” (Barthes, R.), 7, 310n19

  Documentation Photographique, 92

  Documents, for writing, 103

  Domenach, Jean-Marie, 80, 81, 315n24

  Donato, Eugenio, 327n153

  Dort, Bernard, 90, 322n49, 323n58

  Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 17, 311n38

  Douady, Daniel, 44, 312n72

  Doumergue, Gaston, 9, 310n24

  Doxa, the, 218, 220, 221

  Dramatic art, with understanding/hearing, 272–73

  Dreams, 187–88

  Duby, Georges, 336n37

  Ducrot, Oswald, 217

  Duhamel, Georges, 110, 319n109

  Dullaert, Heyman, 335n28

  Dumur, Guy, 90, 317n50

  Durand, Claude, 136, 322n44

  Duras, Marguerite, ix, 174, 316n31, 328n177

  Duvignaud, Jean, 90, 93, 95, 264, 315n8, 317n57;Arguments and, 320n10, 328n175; Brechtism and, 318n82; cultural-political meeting and, 318n81; Théâtre populaire and, 318n82

  Dyson-Hudson, Neville, 327n153

  École de Préparation des Professeurs de Français à l’Étranger, L’, 87

  École Internationale, 323n63

  École Normale Supérieure, 1

  École Pratique des Hautes Études, 52, 129, 156, 159, 173, 211, 335n31; faculty position at, 251, 253, 325n124, 332n61, 336n52, 336n54; rhetoric at, 180

  Écrire (review), 321n33, 322n50

  Écriture des pierres, L’ (Caillois), 199

  Éden, Éden, Éden (Guyotat), 270, 339nn105–6

  Éditions de l’Arche, 90, 98, 99, 315n19, 318n88, 335n16

  Éditions Demain, 310n13

  Éditions Denoël, 320n12, 338n87, 338n93

  Éditions du Cerf, 312n77

  Éditions du Club du Meilleur Livre, 316nn41–42

  Éditions du Seuil: Cayrol and, 137–38, 321n33; with La Chambre claire, 73; with Le Degré zéro de l’écriture, 73, 330n14; relationship with, 79, 137–38, 309n4, 315n12, 321n26

  Éditions Gallimard, 99, 316n39, 317nn52–53; with La Chambre claire, 73; Degrés and, 323n74; Éden, Éden, Éden and, 270, 316n46; Nora and, 321n25; relationship with, 73–82

  Éditions Je Sers, 310n13

  Éditions Julliard, 320n12, 329n178, 338n85

  Editorial work: with Critique, 156–64; with “Revue internationale” project, 170–80; with Théâtre populaire, 90–99, 319n96

  Einaudi, 173, 287, 341n157, 341nn159–60

  Élements de sémiologie (Barthes, R.), 309n4, 331n49

  Eliot, T. S., 319n97

  Ellipsis, catalysis and, 216–17

  Emmanuel, Pierre, 50, 313n83

  Empire des signes, L’ (Barthes, R.), 167, 258, 266, 281; Caillois with letter on, 199–200; Faye with letter on, 200; “incidents” and, 298; Perros, G., on, 337n66; publishing of, 309n4

  “Empire of signs,” 276

  Encyclopedia of knowledge, 235–36

  “Encyclopédie de la Pléiade, L’” project, 315n15

  “En Grèce” (Barthes, R.), 312n55

  Enumeration, Flaubertian sentence and, 223, 230–32, 234

  Envelope, Flaubertian sentence as, 216–17. See also Closure, Flaubertian sentence and

  Enzensberger, Hans Magnus, 175, 329n177, 329n183

  Epidaurus Theater, 92

  Erasure, mark and, xi

  Éribon, Didier, 328n169, 342n171

  Eros, 204, 341n158

  Erval, François, 129, 321n17

  Esprit (literary magazine), 77, 79–81, 134, 315n14, 315nn25–26

  “Esprit normalien, L’” (Lemaître), 310n10

  Essais (Montaigne), 325n108

  Essais critiques (Barthes, R.), viii, 337n60

  Essai sur l’un (Singevin), 314n2

  Essangeage (“first rinse”), 342n161

  Etchetoa villa, Hendaye, 94, 127, 144, 242, 318n79, 318n89

  Été dernier à Marienbad (Robbe-Grillet), 157–58, 159

  Étranger, L’ (Camus, A.), 312n78

  “Étrangère, L’” (Barthes, R.), 268

  Évangile éternel, L’: Étude sur Michelet (Guéhenno), 316n32

  Evil, Good and, 122

  “Evocations et incantations dans la tragédie grecque” (Barthes, R.), 311n37, 311n47

  Exelmans, Antoine (Baron), xii–xiv, 309n2

  Exelmans, Rémy Joseph Isidore, 309n2

  Existences (magazine), 31–32, 48, 58, 312n55, 312n78

  Fading, 227, 333n68

  Fantasy, writing and, 292–93

  Fashion, 97, 98, 146, 148, 250–252, 256; readers of, 164–65, 264; work on, 147, 164, 171, 251, 253, 318n84, 335n27, 336n51

  Faucon, Bernard, 207, 330n29

  Faure, Paul, 310n5

  “Faut-il tuer la grammaire?” (Barthes, R.), 315n12

  Faux-monnayeurs, Les (Gide), 298

  Faye, Jean-Pierre, 200, 330n9

  Febvre, Lucien, 335n11

  Ferrier, Michaël, 276

  Figaro littéraire, Le, 148

  “Figures” (Barthes, R.), 286, 287–88

  Filasiev, 119

  Finas, Lucette, 128, 320n14

  “First rinse” (essangeage), 342n161

  Flammarion, 281, 340n146

  Flaubert, Gustave, 106, 182, 315n12, 332n52; classical language and, 234; influence of, 210–11, 331n35, 332n58, 332n60; letter to Roger des Genettes, 334n83. See also Bouvard et Pécuchet; Sente
nce, Flaubertian

  “Flaubert and the Sentence” (Barthes, R.), 211

  Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique (Foucault), 319n106

  Fontanier, Pierre, 215, 331n45

  Ford Foundation, 325n102

  Form: with Flaubertian sentence, 215, 218–19, 221–22; language with content and, 185–86

  Fornié, 320n1

  Foucault, Michel, ix, 79, 132, 157–58, 162, 237, 340n125; Althusser and, 196; Badiou on, 327n156; Benveniste and, 207; Domenach and, 315n24; friendship with, 278; Pinguet and, 276; reviews, 319n106; S/Z and letter from, 198

  Fourier, Charles, 155, 325n122, 336n53

  Fournié, Georges, 124

  “Fragment pour H” (Guibert), 292

  Fragments, 174, 221, 238, 254, 266

  Fragments, for Lettura, 287, 341n159

  “Fragments du Narcisse” (Valéry), 2, 309n2

  Fragments d’un discours amoureux (Barthes, R.), 115, 285, 341n152, 342n165, 343n184; with Compagnon, 284–92, 342n166; description of, 332n61; “Fragment pour H” and, 292; with Kristeva, letter from, 270; with Mandiargues, letter from, 203; with Tournier, letter from, 203–4; “Vita Nova” and, 299

  Franca, 196

  France, Anatole, 3, 5, 6, 309n3, 310n10

  France Observateur, 124, 319n99, 320nn4–5, 322n53, 324n89, 326n135. See also Lettres nouvelles, Les; Nouvel Observateur, Le

  Franceschetti, 119

  Frénaud, André, 84–85, 316nn33–34

  French Resistance, 25

  Freud, Sigmund, 196, 333n65

  Fricarelle (lesbian love), 312n69

  Friedmann, Georges, 142, 247, 323n64, 336n35

  Fumet, Stanislas, 312n77

  Funaki, Kazuo, 277

  Gallimard. See Éditions Gallimard

  Gallimard, Robert, 74

  Gatti, Armand, 336n34

  Gautier, Jean-Jacques, 320n5

  Gaxotte, Pierre, 321n19

  Genet, Jean, 247, 271, 316n28, 319n96, 333n72; Duras and, 316n31; letter from, 82–83

  Genette, Gérard, 180, 273

  Gestapo, 25

  Getzler, Pierre, 264, 338n89

  Ghelderode, Michel de, 93, 317n63

  Gide, André, 298

  Girard, René, 157, 158, 162, 315n21, 326n135, 326n139, 327n153; Johns Hopkins University and, 339n111; role of, 327n157

  Girodon, Jean, 21, 311n43

  Glissements progressifs du plaisir (film), 136

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, vii

  Goldmann, Lucien, 327n153

  Gommes, Les (Robbe-Grillet), 137, 138, 139, 157, 322n47, 322n53

  Gomulka, Wladyslaw, 315n9

  Goncourt, Edmond de, 315n12

  Goncourt, Jules de, 315n12

  Gonzoles, 207

  Good, Evil and, 122

  Gorki, Maxime, 97, 318n93, 336n46

  Gouin, Félix, 111

  Goytisolo, Juan, 156