Read The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays (New York Review Books Classics) Online
Authors: Simon Leys
Lacan (J.)
240
Ladany (Laszlo)
389–90
,
393–94
,
397
,
400
Lambert (Isabelle)
132
Lao Zi
255
Larbaud (Valery)
102
,
249–51
,
525
Lastman (Pieter)
250
Lawson (Henry)
474–75
Lee Kuan-yew
314
Leonardo da Vinci
516
Levi (Primo)
408
Lewis (A.)
482–83
Lewis (C.S.)
29
,
44
,
462
,
482–83
,
499
Li Fuchun
400
Ligne (Prince de, Charles-Joseph Lamoral)
7
,
55–60
,
509
,
514–15
Li He
338
Li Qingzhao
549
–50
Liu Binyan
399
Liu Shilong
552
Liu Xia
429
Li Xiannian
400
Li Zhi
311
Longfellow (H.W.)
454
Lon Nol
414
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
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
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
Ma Zhiyuan
336
McCahon (Colin)
354
McCarthy (Mary)
235
Meng Haoran
339
Michaux (Henri)
7
,
147
,
211–31
,
235
,
246
,
479–80
,
510
,
545–47
Milton (John)
20
Minford (John)
521
Mirsky (Jonathan)
399
Mitterrand (François)
107
,
242
,
553
Monet (Claude)
495
Monfreid (Daniel de)
88
Montaigne
143
,
156
,
228
,
240
,
261
,
526
Montherlant (Henry de)
23–24
,
202
,
235
,
513
Morand (Paul)
55
More (Thomas)
304
Mortimer (John)
193
Mote (F.W.)
299–300
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 (Vladimir)
7
,
22–24
,
166
,
168–69
,
203
,
232–37
,
246
,
248
,
471
,
500
,
513
,
543
Napoléon III (Louis Bonaparte)
79–80
Nekrich (A.)
49
Newman (John Henry)
12
,
40
,
87
,
179
Nicholas I
502
Nichols (Mike)
472
Nin (Anaïs)
471
Nixon (Richard)
367
Ni Zan
357
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
Pasternak (B.)
245
Peng Dehuai
385
Peng Zhen
392
Pessoa (F.)
245
Pétain (Ph.)
158
St. Peter
497–99
Picasso (P.)
194
,
310
,
345
,
348
,
354
,
556
Pirsig (R.)
354
Pius XII
108
Poe (E.A.)
258
Pontius Pilate
51–52
Porto-Riche (Georges de)
116
Poussin (Nicolas)
534
Powys (J.C.)
441
Presley (Elvis)
35
Pretzel (R.)
49
Proust (Marcel)
78
,
84
,
117
,
144
,
147
,
202
,
240
,
251
,
261
,
268
,
276
,
350
,
520
,
526
,
530
,
538
,
556–57
Raban (Jonathan)
560–62
Rabassa (G.)
258
Rabelais (François)
18
,
228
,
240
,
255
,
433–34
,
512
Renan (E.)
158
Reverdy (I.)
478
Reynolds (J.)
561
Richter (S.)
310
Rider Haggard (H.)
253
Riefenstahl (L.)
501
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
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
Segalen (V.)
7
,
86–99
,
288–89
,
295
,
509
,
522–23
,
549
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
Signac (Paul)
161
Simenon (G.)
7
,
46
,
64
,
147
,
202–10
,
248
,
257–58
,
265
,
277
,
510
,
515
,
538
Singer (I.B.)
202
Snow (C.P.)
326
Sollers (Philippe)
377
Solzhenitsyn (A.)
372
Son Sen
412
Staël (Madame de)
55
Stannard (M.)
190
,
192–93
,
196–98
Stendhal
60
,
126
,
143
,
228
,
275
,
313
,
358
,
501
,
535
,
557
Stevenson (R.L.)
253
,
267
,
437
,
560–61
Styron (W.)
255
Sun Yat-sen
96