Read The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays (New York Review Books Classics) Online
Authors: Simon Leys
Cabanis (J.)
515
Caldwell (E.)
255
Camoens
434
Canetti (E.)
319
,
326–27
,
408
,
554
Carrel (A.)
505
Carroll (Lewis)
370
Carter (Jimmy)
413
Cartier-Bresson (H.)
471
Casanova
(film)
243
Catherine the Great
56
Céline (L.F.)
265
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 X
78
Chekhov
17
,
46
,
145
,
279–80
,
474
,
497–99
,
534
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
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
Coleridge
316
Colombus
443
Confucius
8
,
253
,
294–95
,
314–28
,
375
,
387
,
478
,
486
,
490
,
511
,
553
,
556
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
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
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
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
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
Dostoevsky (F.)
145
,
248
,
266
,
536
Dreyfus (A.)
50
du Bellay (J.)
285
Duch
413–14
Du Fu
259
Dumas (A.)
18
,
143
,
252
,
266
,
433
,
512
,
521
Dumas (A., son)
252
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
Ensor (James)
161
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
Fowles (J.)
281
Fra Angelico
355
Friedman (E.)
364–66
Frost (Robert)
435
Fu Shan
313
García Márquez (Gabriel)
258
Gauguin (Paul)
90
Gautier (Th.)
561
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 (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
Gorbachev (Mikhail)
425
Gosse (E.)
115
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
Groethuysen (B.)
164
Guo Moruo
297
Haffner (S.)
49–50
Han Gan
344
Hanshan
259
Hanska (Eveline)
65
Han Suyin
364–66
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
Hope (A.)
253
Hovasse (M.)
520–21
Howe (Irving)
184
Huang Binhong
495–96
Hugo (Victor)
7
,
18
,
62
,
71–84
,
143
,
228
,
253
,
266
,
273
,
433–34
,
509
,
512
,
516–22
James (Henry)
71–74
,
144
,
222
,
265
,
450
,
517
Jammes (Francis)
115
Janouch (G.)
101
Jerome (St.)
254
Jesus Christ
23
,
32–33
,
35–37
,
40–41
,
51–52
,
199
,
317–18
,
321
,
497
,
554
Jia Dao
351
Jin Yong
521
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