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
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 Affairs
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; Sentence, Flaubertian
“Flaubert and the Sentence” (Barthes, R.), 211
Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique (Foucault), 319n106
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nbsp; 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
Graduate thesis. See “Evocations et incantations dans la tragédie grecque”
Grammatologie, La (Derrida), 275, 339n112