Graduate thesis. See “Evocations et incantations dans la tragédie grecque”
Grammatologie, La (Derrida), 275, 339n112
Grande Guerre des écrivains: D’Apollinaire à Zweig, La (Compagnon), 309n1
Grand Robert, Le (hypnotist), 125, 320n4
“Grand Robert, Le” (Barthes, R.), 320n5
Grants: from CNRS, 76–77, 239, 314n4, 314n19, 335n24, 335n30; Ford Foundation, 325n102; Yamamouchi, 279
Grass, Günter, 329n177
Grasset, 316n32, 326n135
Greco, El, 16
Greece, 5, 32, 46, 62–63
Greek language, music in, 5, 23
Greek pastime, traditional (Komboloï), 343n185
Greek tragedy, 137, 148
Green, André, 202
Greimas, Algirdas Julien, 70, 166, 314n3, 321n29
Grinberg, Michel. See Vinaver, Michel
Groupe de Théâtre Antique de la Sorbonne, 20, 25, 92, 317n59
Grünwald (English teacher), 32
Guéhenno, Jean, 84, 316n32
Guex (Mme.), 8
Guibert, Hervé, vii, 342n169, 342nn171–72, 342nn174–76; letters from, 194, 293, 296–97; letters to, 292, 293–96
Guilloton, Vincent, 147, 324n84
Gulliver project. See “Revue internationale” project
Guyotat, Pierre, 270–73, 339nn105–7
Hachette guidebook, 133
Hashimoto-san, 278, 279
Havas, Roland, 341n157
Hearing. See Understanding/hearing, actors with
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 53, 85
Heidegger, Martin, 308, 344n202
Herbe, L’ (Simon, C.), 267
Herriot, Édouard, 5, 310n9
Hiroshige, Utagawa, 167
Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique (Foucault), 237
Histoire de la langue française (Brunot), 107
Histoire de la littérature française, L’ (Lanson), 319n107
Histoire des spectacles, 315n15
Histoire de Vasco (Schehade), 318n80
Histoire socialiste de la Révolution française (Librairie de L’Humanité), 310n7
Historical method, 70, 103–7
History, 311n36; criticism, 114; poetry and, 112; religiosity and, 108; text and, 111
Hjelmslev, Louis, 331n49
Hodin, Claude, 327n159
Homosexuality, 44, 203–4, 283, 284, 312n69
Howard, Richard, 323n70, 323n73
Huerre, Jean, 3, 309n4
Hugo, Victor, 93, 108, 111, 182
Huissiers, Les (Vinaver), 100, 319n103
Humanité, L’ (newspaper), 5
Hungary, Soviet Union in, 72, 314n8, 318n78, 323n62, 328n175
Hyppolite, Jean, 327n153
“I am followed on the street,” 117–18
Ideas: as chance, 185; as content, 185–86; for novels, 8
Idiot, The (Dostoevsky), 17, 311n38
Île [des] pingouins, L’ (France), 5
Illustrations, 92, 169
Il n’y a pas de paradis (Frénaud), 316n33
Image: conference on, 250; name and, 230
IMEC. See Institut Mémoires de l’Édition Contemporaine
“Incidents,” 297–98
Inclined position, tuberculosis and, 33, 312n56
Instantanés, 320n3, 322n52
Institut Français, 114, 115
Institut Franco-Japonais, 276
Institut Mémoires de l’Édition Contemporaine (IMEC), 1, 326n129
Institut Pasteur, 28, 312n58
International Association of Semiotics, 340n142
Iphigénie Hôtel (Vinaver), 319nn103–4
Jakobson, Roman, 332n56
Jammes, Francis, 253
Japan, 167, 199, 256, 319n105; Pinguet and, 276–81, 339n116; trip to, 260, 325n117, 339n116, 340n121, 340n131
Japan Times, 281
Jaurès, Jean, 2, 4–5, 310n6, 310n8
Je (Velan), 140, 148
Jésuites, Les (Michelet), 40
Je vivrai l’amour des autres (Cayrol), 134
Jews, anti-Semitism, 313n93
Johns Hopkins University, 274, 315n21, 327n153, 337n62, 339n111, 340n130
Johnson, Uwe, 329n177
Joliot-Curie, Frédéric, 121
Jouffroy, Alain, 200
Jouhandeau, Marcel, 76
“Journal de deuil” (Journal of Mourning) (Barthes, R.), 298, 299, 308, 344n200
Joyce, James, 322n49, 338n84
Jukovski, N. N., 120
Julliard. See Éditions Julliard
Kafka, Franz, 147
Kanters, Robert, 148–49, 324n95
Kapaleipsis, 341n153
Katalepsis, 341n153
Kemp, Robert, 337n71
Kempf, Roger, 161, 327n147
Kessel, Nicole, 339n95
Kitsch, 222–23, 234
Klein, Bruno, 36, 56, 313n99
Klein, Mélanie, 334n75
Kleist, Heinrich von, 93, 317n67
Klossowski, Denise, 141, 146, 208, 248, 250, 324n82
Klossowski, Pierre, ix, 208, 324n92, 331n30, 337n64; with Butor, M., and Perros, G., 238, 246, 247; friendship with, 141, 148, 250, 251, 324n82; piano and, 248
Knowledge, encyclopedia of, 235–36
Komboloï (traditional Greek pastime), 343n185
Koupernik, Cyrille, 125, 126, 320n4
Kristeva, Julia, 207, 212, 331n39, 339nn100–1; influence of, 268–69; letter from, 270; letters to, 269–70; Sollers and, 339n103; Thiers Foundation and, 284
Kuki, François, 273, 339n108
La Bruyère, Jean de, 15
Lacan, Jacques, 197, 327n153, 333n68
Lacroix, Jean, 85, 101, 316nn35–36
La Fontaine, Jean de, 182
Language, 52, 268; Bouvard et Pécuchet and engine of, 232–36; classical, 110, 234; cliché in, 109, 121; encyclopedia of, 236; with form and content, 185–86; literature and, 114, 181–83; music in Greek, 5, 23; poetry and, 81–82, 116, 183–84, 212; prose and, 5, 112, 183–84; rhetoric and, 181–83; sex and, 271; singing and, 89; sociology through, 70; with writers, role of, 184–85. See also Sentence
Language, lessons, 32, 35–36
Lanson, Gustave, 103–5, 319n107
Laporte, Roger, 237
La Rochefoucauld, François de, 257, 259
Lasserre, Pierre, 4
Laude, Jean, 93, 317n66
Lautréamont, Comte de, 111, 198
Lazare parmi nous (Cayrol), 132
League of Nations, 311n27
Lebesque, Morvan, 90, 91, 317n51
Le Bihan (Commander), xii, xiii
Le Bot, Marc, 161, 327n151
Le Clézio, Jean-Marie Gustave, 197–98
Lefebvre, Henri, ix
Lefort, Claude, 329n188
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 235
Leiris, Michel, 88, 157, 198, 328n177, 329n188
Lemaître, Jules, 310n10
Lenin, Vladimir, 120, 121
Leonetti, Francesco, 175, 328n177, 329n184
Leroux, 54, 55
Lesbian love (fricarelle), 312n69
Lesbos, 283, 284
Lessons: language, 32, 35–36; singing, 89–90, 311n40
Lettres françaises, Les (Derrida), 275
Lettres nouvelles, Les (review), 124, 125, 126, 138, 140, 320nn8–9; “Le Grand Robert” in, 320n5; Nadeau and, 320n12; with response to La Nouvelle NRF, 316n38
Lettura (Barthes, R.), 286, 287, 341n159
Leuwen, Jean-Marc, 209
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 88, 327nn161–62; on criticism, 327n165, 328n165; letters from, 165, 166, 167–69, 328n169; letters to, 164, 165, 166–67, 169–70
Lévy, Bernard-Henri, 131
Lexicology, 314n4, 315nn18–19
Lexique de l’auteur, Le (Barthes, R.), 311n29
Leysin Sanatorium, 1; arrival at, 311n45; letters from, 22–25, 34–51, 54–62; revisiting, 309n3
Librairie de L’Humanité, 310n7
Librarian, at Institut Français,
114
Literary criticism, 107, 113–14
Literature: censorship, 270–71; desupernaturalization, 106–7; as disappointment, 300, 301; historical method and, 103–7; language and, 114, 181–83; “retiring” from, 252; role of, 342n183; in Romantic period, 110–11
“Littérature objective” (Bataille), 156–57
Littérature présente (Nadeau), 320n2
Living, art of, 278
Lomonossov, M. V., 120
Loti, Pierre, 330n14
Louis-le-Grand Lycée, 1, 311n43
Lourau, René, 161, 327n147
Love: examination of, 45–46, 53, 60–62, 314n106; lesbian, 312n69; “Popular Songs of Paris Today” and, 117, 118; power of, 314n106; of servitude, 123
Luc Mériga (Vandervelde), 310n6
Luke (apostle), 10, 311n26
Lyssenko, Trofim Denissovitch, 319n116
Macksay, Richard, 327n153
Magic, 23, 106–7, 115, 152, 187, 227
Magny, Claude-Edmonde, 79
Main clause, 215
Malices de Plick et Plock, Les (Christophe), 333n64
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 149, 152, 182, 187, 271, 334n79; antisentence and, 218; influence of, 2, 5, 105, 198, 315n12
Malraux, André, 336n40
Mandiargues, André Pieyre de, 201, 203
Mandrou, Robert, 336n37
Manifeste des 121, 329n188, 336n48
Marconi, Guglielmo, 120
Mark, erasure and, xi
Martinet, André, 212, 331n35
Marty, Éric, 331nn32–33, 341n157, 343n186
Marx, Karl, 97, 113, 120, 121, 319n111
Mascolo, Dionys, 254, 316n31, 324n99, 328n177; Enzensberger and, 329n183; Manifeste des 121 and, 329n188; “Revue internationale” and, 172, 174–75, 176
Maspero, François, 338n83
Massin, Robert, 265, 338n91
Maupomé, Claude, 89
Mauriès, Patrick, 341n157
Mauzi, Robert, 278, 279, 340n125, 340n132
Mazarine, 281
Mazon, Jacqueline, 26, 311n50
Mazon, Paul, 311n37, 311n47, 311n50
Médici prize, 326n128
Mediocrity, 40, 198
Mercure de France, Le, 310n20, 320n2
Mère, La (Gorki), 97, 336n46
Mère Courage (Mother Courage) (Brecht), 96, 97, 318n88, 318n92
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 267, 329n188
Meslon, Olivier de, 135, 241, 335n18
Messiaen, Olivier, 49, 313n81
Météores, Les (Tournier), 203
Méthode de méditation (Bataille), 214
Metonymy, 219, 271
Michaux, Henri, 23, 157, 237, 326n134
Michelangelo, 210
Michelet, Jules, 104, 108, 149, 257; influence of, 22–23, 36, 39–40, 44, 48–49, 136, 268; work on, 58, 59–60, 79, 80, 133, 333n73
“Michelet, l’Histoire et la mort” (Barthes, R.), 315n23
Michelet par lui même (Barthes, R.), 321n32; readers of, 82–84; “Sa Majesté la femme” from, 312n74; with Starobinski, J., letter from, 258
Microcosmos (film), 209
Middlebury College, 323nn69–70, 324n84, 335n20
Milhit, Heidy, 314n109
Milhit family, 62, 314n109
Milieu: rhetoric and, 104–5, 106; writer and, 107
Miller, Jacques-Alain, 337n54
Milner, Jean-Claude, 337n54
Mima, 11
Mimesis, Flaubertian sentence and, 234–35
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. See Department of Cultural Relations
Misanthrope, Le (Molière), 105
Mitchourine, Ivan, 118, 120, 319n116
Mobile (Butor, Michel), 141, 148, 324nn95–96
Modern Language Notes, 268
Moire, 220, 332n59
Molière, 2, 105, 109, 309n1
Monde, Le (newspaper), 85, 128, 133, 164, 165, 316n36
“Monde objet, Le” (Barthes, R.), 331n50
“Monde où l’on catche, Le” (Barthes, R.), 75, 315n26
Monnet, Gabriel, 95, 96, 318n86
Monod (Madame), 25
Monod, Gabriel, 7, 104, 310n21
Montaigne, Le, xi–xvi
Montaigne, Michel de, 150, 325n108
Montand, Yves, 115
Mood, 13, 50, 57–58, 203, 220
Moravia, Alberto, 328n177
Morazé, Charles, 327n153
Morceaux choisis (Vandervelde), 310n6
Morin, Edgar, 157, 315n8, 318n82, 323n64, 326n132; Arguments and, 320n10, 328n175; politics and, 329n188
Morrissette, Bruce, 267, 323n58
Mort de Socrate, La (Satie), 206
“Morts de Roland Barthes, Les” (Derrida), 273
Mort volontaire au Japon, La (Pinguet), 276
Moscow Ballet, 317n71
Mosser, André, 54, 55, 56, 60, 313n91
Mother, The (Brecht), 318n93
Mother Courage. See Mère Courage
Moulin Rouge, 139, 322n56
Mounier, Emmanuel, 315n24
Mouvement républicain populaire, 313n80
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 210, 248
Music, 2, 114, 189, 310n18, 311n40; duet with Perlemuter, 56, 313n96; in Greek language, 5, 23; piano, 7, 141, 146, 238, 242, 248, 251; “Popular Songs of Paris Today,” 115–18; Romantic, 244; silence and, 217. See also Singing
“Mythe, aujourd’hui, Le’” (Barthes, R.), 316n34
Mythologies (Barthes, R.), 142, 166; criticism of, 316n36; dedication, 85, 189; doubts about writing, 240; influence of, 170, 261; influences on, 313n82; readers of, 84–85; texts, 75, 315n26, 316n30, 316n34, 320n6; work on, 240, 315n14
“Mythology”: postage stamp, 209–10; on Tour de France, 320n6
Nadeau, Maurice, 315n12, 320n2, 320n9, 321n21; cultural-political meeting and, 318n81; as editor, 79, 328n177, 338n85, 338n87; friendship with, 241; letters to, 124–32; Les Lettres nouvelles and, 320n12; Le Prix de Mai and, 320n10; La Quinzaine littéraire and, 124, 128–30, 321n17, 321n20, 321nn22–23; with “Revue internationale” project, 175
Name, image and, 230
Napoleon Bonaparte, 15
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 314n7
Nationalism, 121, 178, 329n188
Nausée, La (Sartre), 331n43
Neologisms, 220, 332n57, 334n76
Neo-Skeptics, 235
Neutral, 164, 170, 258, 260, 292
Nicole, Pierre, 334n77
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 7, 310n20
Nihilism, 326n139
Nikko-san, 278
Nîmes drama festival, 317n76
Nomothete, 332n57
Nora, Pierre, 131, 321n25
Notes sur l’histoire de la littérature française de Lanson (Plekhanov), 319n107
Nouveaux Essais critiques (Barthes, R.), 201, 330n14, 331n35, 333n71
Nouvelle critique ou nouvelle imposture (Picard), 325n113
Nouvelle Nouvelle Revue française (review), 150, 315n11, 328n172
Nouvelle NRF, La (literary magazine), 322n52; attack from, 316n38; renaming of, 150, 315n11, 328n172; writing solicitations from, 73, 76, 77, 78, 79, 147
Nouvel Observateur, Le, 331n30, 338n91, 340n134, 342n171
Novelistic writing, 203, 261, 297
Novels, 134, 310n15, 326n131, 343n193; as antiartistic genre, 6–7; Butor, Michel, with, 144, 324n75; ideas for, 8. See also Preparation of the Novel, The; “Vita Nova”
NRF. See Nouvelle NRF, La
Nude Restaurant (film), 281
Nuits sans nuit et quelques jours sans jour (Leiris), 157
Nutte, Gustave, 25
Objects: sentence and, 214, 216, 235; systems of, 325n100
Observateur, L’ (magazine), 77, 125–26, 265
Observatoire de Cannes, L’ (Ricardou), 157
Oeuvres complètes (Barthes, R.), 332n51, 334n80; production for, 321n19; “Vita Nova,” transcription of, 299–308
Oeuvres intimes (Stendhal), 311n44
Oeuvres mêlées (Saint-Évremond), 310n25
Olivier,
Alain, 339n108
Onomothete, 220, 332n57
On the Sublime (Pseudo-Longinus), 331n37
Ordre des choses, L’ (Brosse), 157
Origine de la tragédie dans la musique ou hellénisme et pessimisme, L’. See Birth of Tragedy, The
Orion aveugle, L’ (Simon, C.), 266
ORTF, 178, 200
Oualid, Sadia, 3, 309n4
Oulipo: Créations, re-créations, 261, 338n92
Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Sextus Empiricus), 334n81
Paganism, 7, 49
Pages choisies (Desanges), 310n6
Panzéra, Charles, 89–90, 311n40
Papiers collés (Perros, G.), 249, 324n81, 324n85
Papiers collés II (Perros, G.), 257
Parading, 223, 234
Parain, Brice, 82
Paris, Jean, 317nn70–71
Parodic relationship, writers in, 233
Parti Radical, 310n9
Parti Socialiste Français, 4, 310n5
Pascal, Blaise, 7, 12, 52, 54, 67, 105, 342n183; as enemy of rhetoric, 180–81; influence of, 306, 307, 311n46
Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 328n177
Passage (Camus, R.), 281
Patron, Sylvie, 326n129
Paulhan, Jean, 73, 76, 78, 85, 189, 316n38
Pavese, Cesare, 101
“Pavlovisme sent la poussière, Le” (Koupernik), 320n4
Péguy, Charles, 105
Péju, Marcel, 86, 316n44
Pensées (Pascal), 181, 306, 307, 311n46
Perec, Georges, 180, 261, 338n90, 338nn84–85; Getzler and, 338n89; letters from, 193, 265; letters to, 262–65, 266; Prix Renaudot and, 338n86
Peri hypsous, 212
Perlemuter, Vlado, 56, 313n93, 313n96
Perrenoud, Arlette, 260
Perrone-Moisés, Leyla, viii
Perros, Élisabeth, 151, 325n109
Perros, Frédéric, 336n49
Perros, Georges (Poulot), 141, 142, 148, 150, 151, 323n65, 324n81, 324n85, 327n153, 329n177, 336n42; with Butor, Michel, and Klossowski, P., 238, 246, 247; with cancer and silence, 337n68; on L’Empire des signes, 337n66; exile and, 335n9, 335n15; family of, 336n49; letters to, 239–57; letters to Butor, 336n43, 337n60; piano with, 242, 251
Perros, Tania, 147, 251, 324n86, 325n109, 336n44, 336n49
Peste, La (Camus. A.), 86, 316n41
“Peste, annales d’une épidémie ou roman de la solitude? La” (Barthes, R.), 316n41
Petite-Fille de Madame Angot, La (Vautel), 311n30
Petrov, V. V., 120
Philipe, Gérard, 246, 335n32
Philology, 106, 110
Photographs: Documentation Photographique, 92; Mère Courage, 96, 97, 318n88
“Phrase—Modernité” (Barthes, R.), 211
Piaf, Edith, 115, 116–17, 319n112, 319n114
Piano, 7, 141, 146, 238, 242, 248, 251
Piatier, Jacqueline, 165, 328n166
Pic, Roger, 96, 318n88, 318n92