Picard, Raymond, 152, 160, 164, 166, 197, 320n15; criticism from, 327n165; quarrel with, 258, 325n113, 326n144
Picon, Gaëtan, 248, 336n40
Piel, Jean, 339n101; Critique and, 156–57; letters to, 156–64, 323n58, 326n129
Pingaud, Bernard, 259
Pinget, Robert, 85–86, 316n39
Pinguet, Maurice, 339n116, 340n126; dedication to, 340n133; letters from, 280–81, 340n136; letters to, 276–80
Plaisir du texte, Le (Barthes, R.), 201, 202
Planchon, Roger, 99, 100, 101, 319n99, 319n101
Planétarium, 316n46
Plato, 66, 87, 144, 151
Playboy (magazine), 203
Pleasure, anthology and, 213
Plekhanov, Georges, 104, 319n107
Pleurisy, 26–27
Pleynet, Marcelin, 160, 202–3
Plon, 169, 326n133, 327n163
Pneumonia, 26, 27, 31
Pneumothorax, 68–69, 312n52, 312n76, 313n95
Poetry, 5, 237; history and prose with, 112; language and, 81–82, 116, 183–84, 212; supernatural and, 113
Poikilos, 306, 343n193
Poirot-Delpec, Bertrand, 52
Poland, 73, 315n9
Politics, 329n188; cultural-political meeting, 318n81; with science in Romania, 118–23
Ponge, Francis, 237, 330n23
Pop Art, 281
Popov, A. S., 120
“Popular Songs of Paris Today” (Barthes, R.): “I am followed on the street” and, 117–18; love and, 117, 118; with music and proletariat, 115; with music and role of star, 115; Piaf and, 115, 116–17
“Popular theater,” 91–92
Porbus, François, 307, 343n195
Portraitde l’artiste en saltimbanque (Starobinski, J.), 258
Postage stamp, “mythology,” 209–10
Posthumous time, vii
Pothos, 341n158
Poulot, Georges, 327n153. See also Perros, Georges
“Pour une histoire de l’enfance, enfants-vedettes, enfants-copies, jouets” (Barthes, R.), 316n30
Power, 177–79, 321n27
Prelude à l’après-midi d’un faune (Debussy), 2, 5
Preparation of the Novel, The (Barthes, R.), 298, 344n200
“Preparation of the Novel, The” (lecture course), 141, 170, 297, 299
“Prétexte: Roland Barthes” (Cerisy Colloquium), 285
Prévert, Jacques, 109, 114
Prigent, Christian, 205–6, 330nn22–24
Prix de Mai, Le, 148, 320n10, 324n90
Prix Renaudot, 338n86
Professeur Taranne, Le (Adamov), 317n52
Projet de Rév (Robbe-Grillet), 140–41
Proletariat, 115–16
Prophesy, 91, 110
Prose, 5, 112, 183–84
Protestants, 7, 10, 310n21, 322n39
Proust, Marcel, vii, 303, 310n11; influence, 5, 209, 216, 234, 343n192; with names, 230
Pseudo-Longinus, 331n37
Psychoanalysis, 110, 111, 162, 235–37, 284, 337n60
Public education, training course in, 314n6
Puritanism, 7
Pushkin, Alexander, 105
Queneau, Raymond, 82, 157, 160, 315n12, 322n56; with “L’Encyclopédie de la Pléiade” project, 315n15; “incidents” and, 297; letters from, 73–75; novel and, 326n131; relationship with, 338n91
Quintilian, 151, 152, 180, 248, 325n111
Quinzaine littéraire, La, 320n13, 321n16, 338n91, 339n100; Nadeau and, 124, 128–30, 321n17, 321n20, 321nn22–23; Revel in, 320n14
Racine, Jean, 5, 105, 109, 182, 257, 335n23. See also “Dire Racine”; Sur Racine
Rancière, Jacques, 330n17
Rebeyrol, Philippe, 114; with history exams, 311n36; letters to, 1–25, 68–73, 208–9; music and, 7, 189, 310n18
Recherche de la base et du sommet (Char), 193, 334n1
Régnier, Yves, 68, 69
Reinach, Théodore, 341n150
Religiosity, history and, 108
Rembrandt, 323n66
Renard and la Boussole, Le (Pinget), 316n39
Répertoire (Butor, Michel), 144
“Research on the Social Signs and Symbols in Human Relations (in the Contemporary French Domain)” (Barthes, R.), 335n11
“Retiring,” from literature, 252
Retour du tragique (Domenach), 315n24
Rêve, Le (Béguin), 79
Revel, Jean-François, 128, 320nn14–15
Révelin, Noémie (maternal grandmother), 316n40
Reversal, anacoluthon as, 226–27
Révolution du langage poétique, La (Kristeva), 212
“Revue internationale” (Gulliver) project, 149, 170–80, 238, 324n99
Rham, Gilbert de, 35, 42, 312n59
Rhetoric: classical language and, 110; criticism and, 103–4; historical method and literature with, 103–7; language and, 181–83; milieu and, 104–5, 106; silence and, 181; Valéry and, 180–88; with work of writers, 107–9; work on, 102, 151, 152, 248, 325n110. See also “Avenir de la rhétorique, L’”
Ricardou, Jean, 157, 326n136
Richard, Jean-Paul, 317n77
Richie, Donald, 281
Rimbaud, Arthur, 198, 315n12, 330n26
Ring (Wagner), 290
Ristat, Jean, 339n113
“Rizières” (Roy), 91
Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 76, 86, 148, 322n47, 322nn53–56; family of, 322n51; influence of, 157–59; letters to, 136–41; with Les Lettres nouvelles, 125, 320n3, 322n52; Le Prix de Mai and, 320n10
Robert, Marthe, 128, 129, 148, 204, 324n89
Roberte, ce soir (film), 331n30
Robichez, Jacques, 96, 318n91
Roger des Genettes, Edma, 334n83
Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes (Barthes, R.), xi, 310n17, 321n22, 330n26, 337n67, 341n147; Allées Paulmy and, 310n16; interview for, 341n148; publication of, 340n146; “Vita Nova” and, 298, 299; work on, 340nn144–45
Romania, 114, 118–23
Romano, Ruggiero, 288, 341n157
Romanticism, 4, 23, 39, 187
Romantic period: literature in, 110–11; music, 244
Rose des vents: 32 Rhumbs pour Charles Fourier, La (Butor, Michel), 155, 325n121
Rosetti, Alexandru, 122, 320n118
Rosolato, Guy, 327n153
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 60
Rousset, Jean, 261, 338n78
Rouvet, Jean, 317nn72–73
Roy, Jules, 91, 317nn52–54
Russo (Italian intellectual), 314n105
Ruwet, Nicolas, 327n153
Ruy Blas (Hugo), 93
“Ruy Blas” (Barthes, R.), 93, 317n68
Sade (Marquis de), 112, 156, 271, 338n79
SADE (Societa Adriatica di Elettricita), 330n12
Sade, Fourier, Loyola (Barthes, R.), 168–69, 191, 200–1, 272
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 134, 321n36
Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry, 311n28
Saint-Évremond, Charles de, 10, 310n25
Saint-Hilaire-du-Touvet. See Sanatorium des Étudiants de France
Saint John the Baptist (Caravaggio), 175
Sanatorium des Étudiants de France, Saint-Hilaire-du-Touvet, 313n84, 313n86; Canetti, G., at, 28; departure from, 311n45; Douady and, 312n72; Existences, 31–32, 48, 58, 312n55, 312n78; letters from, 17–22, 26–34, 52–54; relapse and, 311n39, 312n51
Sanatoriums, vii, 17, 64–67, 89, 269–70. See also Leysin Sanatorium
Santini, Pierre, 209
Sappho, 284, 341n150
Sarcey, Francisque, 149, 324n97
Sarduy, Severo, viii, 129, 180, 321n16
Sarraute, Nathalie, 88, 296, 320n10
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 48, 247, 312n79, 315n12, 331n43, 333n62; on authors, 333n69; Genet and, 333n72; influence of, 58; letter to, 86–87, 190; Manifeste des 121 and, 329n188; in Les Temps modernes, 312n77, 313n101
Satie, Erik, 206
Saussure, Ferdinand de, 212, 331n49
“Savoir et folie” (Barthes, R.), 102, 326n138
Savulescu,
Trajan, 119, 123
Scénographie d’un tableau (Schefer), 129
Schefer, Jean-Louis, 129
Schehadé, Georges, 95, 318n80
Schema, 222, 234, 332n61
Sciascia, Leonardo, 321n27
Science: class, 120; Flaubertian sentence and, 217, 235; historical method and, 103–7; Romania and politicization of, 118–23; Soviet Union and, 118–19, 120; universal, 120
Scripturire (desire to write), 299
SDN, 10
Séchan, Louis, 17, 311n37
Section Française de l’Internationale Ouvrière, 310n5
Seignobos, Charles, 103
Séméiotikè (Kristeva), 268
Semiotics, 269, 309n4, 340n142
Sentence: antisentence, 218; Kristeva and, 331n39
Sentence, Flaubertian: adverb and, 219; anacoluthons of two truths, 217–18; art and, 217; bêtise and, 211, 218, 224, 229, 232, 235; cleavage and, 228; closure, 224, 233; copy, 215–16, 229, 234–35; disappointment and, 230–31; disconnection and, 214, 215–16; disintegration, 233–34; Encyclopedia of knowledge and, 235–36; enumeration, 223, 230–32, 234; as envelope, 216–17; form and, 215, 218–19, 221–22; influence of, 210–11; mimesis, 234–35; research on, 211–13; science and, 217, 235; silence and, 217; stasis of, 232–33; stereotypes and, 220, 221, 230; truth and, 218, 233, 234; the Voices and, 219–21. See also Bouvard et Pécuchet
Sentence-object, 214, 216, 235
Séparation, La (Simon, C.), 267
Serreau, Jean-Marie, 100, 319n101
Servitude, 58, 123, 214
Seuil. See Éditions du Seuil
Sex, 225, 231, 235, 271, 330n26. See also Homosexuality
Sextus Empiricus, 334n81
SFIO, 4
Shakespeare, William, 19
Shumann, Robert, 8, 310n22
Siegfried, André, 50, 313n83
Sigg family, 314n109
Signing: of Manifeste des 121, 329n188, 336n48; of work by writers, 180
Signs, 61, 256, 268, 330n26, 335n11, 337n66; “empire of,” 276; Saussure and, 331n49; Valéry and, 183; work on, 253. See also Empire des signes, L’
Silence, 256, 259, 261, 265, 280, 294; Flaubertian sentence and, 217; Perros, G., with cancer and, 337n68; rhetoric and, 181
Silone, Ignazio, 318n81
Simon, Claude, xi, 339n95, 339n97; letters from, 267–68; relationship with, 266–67
Simon, Réa, 267, 268, 339n97
Simonon, Georges, 137, 322n49
Singevin, Charles, 68, 69, 314n2
Singing, 116, 117; language and, 89; lessons, 89–90, 311n40
Skira, 169, 258, 260–61, 267, 328n171, 330n8, 338n77
Skira, Albert, 258, 338n81
Socialism, 2, 4–5, 12, 72, 121, 142
Social services, training course in, 314n6
Societa Adriatica di Elettricita. See SADE
Sociology, 73, 88, 135, 146, 185, 241; CNRS grant and, 76–77, 239, 314n4, 314n19, 335n24, 335n30; through language, 70
Sollers, Phillipe, ix, 141, 160, 180, 273, 330n9; influence of, 342n180; Kristeva and, 339n103
Sorbonne. See Groupe de Théâtre Antique de la Sorbonne
Sorcière, La (Michelet), 40, 136, 268
Sorrows of Young Werther, The (Goethe), vii
Soviet Union, 122; in Hungary, 72, 314n8, 318n78, 323n62, 328n175; science and, 118–19, 120
Speleostomy, 47, 51, 312n76
Sport et les hommes, Le (film), 324n94
Stalin, Joseph, 72, 121, 122
Stalinism, 72, 121–22, 314n8, 315n9, 328n175
Stamp. See Postage stamp, “mythology”
Star, music and role of, 115
Starobinski, Georges, 338n80
Starobinski, Jean, 257, 337nn71–72, 338nn74–76; letters from, 258, 259–60; letters to, 258–59, 260–61
Stéfan, Jude, 206, 330n26
Stendhal, 311n44
Stereotypes, Flaubertian sentence and, 220, 221, 230
Stoics, 212, 341n153
Structuralism, 146, 164, 180, 196, 236, 245
“Style de L’Étranger, Le” (Barthes, R.), 312n78
Subjects. See “Void of the subject”
Subordinate clause, 215
Suez Canal, 314n7
Sulger-Buël, Romaric, 342n164
Supernatural: art and, 103; literature and desupernaturalization, 106–7; music and, 114; poetry and, 113
Sur Racine (Barthes, R.), 79, 164, 325n113, 329n180, 335n23; with Althusser, letter from, 196–97; influences on, 258; publishing of, 337n72; work on, 143, 161, 243–44, 318n85
Surrealists, 106, 114, 315n12
Sursis (Sartre), 312n79
Swiss banking system, 24, 311n48
Symbolisme au théâtre, Le (Robichez), 318n91
Syntax, 211–12, 331n39
Synthesis. See Analysis/synthesis split
Système de la mode (Barthes, R.), 157, 248, 269, 319nn94–95, 324n88, 327n162, 337n63
S/Z (Barthes, R.), 164, 337n65; with Bosquet, letter to, 199; with Derrida, letter from, 275; with Foucault, letter from, 198; with Leiris, letter from, 198
Tableau de la France: Géographie physique, politique et morale (Michelet), 333n73
Taine, Hippolyte, 103, 104
Tastes, 224
Tchernov, D. C., 120
Tchirkovski, 119
Téchiné, André, 272, 295, 342n173
Tel Quel, 200, 321n18, 326n137, 339n100, 339n110
Temporal, 20, 311n42
Temps modernes, Les (journal), 48, 74, 264, 316n44, 322n49, 338n87; Sartre in, 312n77, 313n101; writing solicitations from, 86–87
Temps présents (weekly publication), 48, 312n77
Tersina, La (Spanish dancer), 5
Text, history and, 111
“Texte Japon, Le” (Pinguet), 276
Thaïs (France), 5
Theater, 239, 247; piano, writing and, 141, 238; “popular,” 91–92
Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui, 319n101
Théâtre de la Comédie, 319n99
Théâtre des Ateliers, 319n102
Théâtre des Nations, 318n93, 336n46
“Théatre grec, Le” (Barthes R.), 315n15
Théâtre National Populaire (TNP), 95, 242; Amis du Théâtre Populaire and, 317n73; Vilar and, 90, 317n72, 318n83, 336n34
Theatre of Bertolt Brecht, The (Willett), 318n90
Théâtre populaire (review): Amis du Théâtre populaire, 317n73; Brechtism and, 90, 96–98, 318n82, 318n88, 336n46; editorial committee, 317nn50–51; editorial content, 317n52, 317n67, 317n76, 318n83, 318n85, 319n96, 319n102, 321n31, 323n68, 336n46, 337n71; editorial work with, 90–99, 319n96; Mère Courage photographs in, 96, 97, 318n88; Voisin and, 90, 94–99, 318n87, 320n10, 321n31
Thérèse d’Avila, 280
Thermopyles, 11, 311n28
Thévenin, Paule, 273
Thiers Foundation, 284
Thoracoplasty, 31, 38, 312n76
Time, posthumous, vii
Times Literary Supplement, 268
Tito, Josip Broz, 121
TNP. See Théâtre National Populaire
Todorov, Tzvetan, 161, 163, 180, 327n146, 327n153
Tomographies, 31, 38, 41, 312n53
Tour de France, 126, 320n6
Tour Eiffel, La (Barthes, R.), 309n4
Tournier, Michel, 203–4
Training course, in social services and public education, 314n6
Traité de la comédie et des spectacles (Conti), 309n1
Traité sur la Thoracoplastie (Rham), 312n59
Trapenzentzeva, K., 119
Trenet, Charles, 115
Tricks (Camus, R.), 281
“Triomphe et rupture de l’écriture bourgeoise” (Barthes, R.), 315n12
Trois petites liturgies de la présence divine (Messiaen), 313n81
Trotsky, Leon, 121
Truth: anacoluthon between two types of, 217–18; bêtise and, 218; Flaubertian sentence and, 218, 233, 234
Tuberculosis, 9; with bed rest and confinement, 311n41;
cures, 314n103; first attack of, 310n23; inclined position and, 33, 312n56; Institut Pasteur and, 312n58; Perlemuter with, 313n93; pneumothorax with, 68–69, 312n52, 312n76, 313n95; relapse, 311n39, 312n51; speleostomy and, 47, 51, 312n76; thoracoplasty and, 31, 38, 312n76; tomographies and, 31, 38, 41, 312n53. See also Leysin Sanatorium; Sanatorium des Étudiants de France
Twombly, Cy, 281
Ubu (Monnet), 95, 96
Ubu roi, 318n83, 318n86
Understanding/hearing, actors with, 272–73
United Nations, 311n27
United States, 179, 264, 323n69, 324n79, 324n98
Universal science, 120
Université de Paris 7, 211
University of Rabat, 199, 260, 325n120, 339n106
Vaccari, Oreste, 278, 340n129
Valéry, Paul, 106, 249; influence of, 2, 3, 5, 23, 309n2; origins, family, 3–4; Pascal and, 182; poetry and, 112; rhetoric and, 180–88; on writers and language, 184–85
Vandervelde, Émile, 310n6
Van Gogh, Vincent, 133
Van Humbeeck, 55, 56, 60
Van Roleghem (doctor), 36
Vautel, Clément, 11, 311n30
Vauvenargues (Marquis de), 91, 123, 317n54
Veil, Hélène, 27–28
Veil, Jacques, 25–27, 311n50
Velan, Yves, 140, 148, 322n58, 324n90
Vermeer, Johannes, 335n25
Vernant, Jean-Pierre, 327n153
Verrocchio, Andrea del, 342n166
Verstraeten, Pierre, 160, 326n141
Vialleneix, Paul, 321n19
Victory (Conrad), 319n98
Vie, mode d’emploi, La (Perec), 261
Vie en fleur, Le (France), 5
Vie littéraire, La (France), 5, 309n3, 310n10
Vilar, Jean, 93, 99, 317n68; criticism of, 94; TNP and, 90, 317n72, 318n83, 336n34
Vinaver, Michel (Grinberg), 98, 99, 143; friendship with, 323n72; letters from, 100, 101–2; letters to, 100–1; plays of, 319nn102–4; Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui and, 319n101; Théâtre de la Comédie and, 319n99; Théâtre populaire and, 319n102
Visage, Bertrand, 283–84, 341n148
“Vita Nova”: viii, “incidents” and, 297–98; with other titles, 298; transcription of, 299–308
Vitez, Antoine, 319n103
Vittorini, Elio, 175, 328n177
“Vivre avec Fourier” (Barthes, R.), 325n122
Voices, the, 219–21
“Void of the subject,” 260
Voie lactée, Le (film), 163
Voisin, Robert, 133, 315n19, 335n22; letters to, 90–99; Perros, G., and, 243; Théâtre populaire and, 90, 94–99, 318n87, 320n10, 321n31
Voltaire, 5, 105, 111
Volupté (Sainte-Beuve), 321n36
Voyeur (Robbe-Grillet), 322nn55–56
Wagner, Richard, 290, 342n163