208
Death and the Compass
(Borges) 135
The Decision (Brecht) 102-3
Deleuze, Gilles 62
democracy
Borges and French disease
133
death of characters 52-3, 55,
66, 67-8
literary
misunderstanding 39-41
Mallarmé 98
politics of literature
hypothesis 7-8, 11-14,
17-28
descriptive excess
French disease 130, 131-2,
134, 139, 142, 145
literary
misunderstanding 35-43
dialectical theatre 118-19
dialectics, philosophy-poetry
relation 186, 189-91, 192,
193-6, 198-9, 200-1,
202, 203
Diderot, Denis 156-7
disease see sickness
divination, Mallarmé 86-8
Don Quixote (Cervantes) Sl,
143
Don Segundo Sombra
(Gitiraldes) 128
Dos Passos, John 27-8
dreams
Borges and French
disease 143-4, 145-6
truth 149-50, 151, 154, 155,
165-6
Duby, Georges 168-9, 170-1,
172, 174, 177
Dujardin, Edouard 84
D'un désastre obscur
(Mallarmé) 199
Index
economics—aesthetics
complementarity 89-90
economics-ethics fusion 126-7
education, Mallarme’s politics 83
Eisler, Hanns 105
Engels, Friedrich 126
epic, the 136, 137-40, 145-6
epic theatre 105, 117-18
see also specific plays
Europe, Borges and 128, 129
see also France; Germany
events, philosophy-poetry
relation 193-6, 197,
200-2
Everything and Nothing
(Borges} 144
excess
French disease 130, 131-2,
134, 139, 142, 145,
literary
misunderstanding 35-43
excitement 51-5, 67-8
exemplary characters 171, 173-5,
178, 180-1
Exiles’ Dialogues (Brecht) 115
121
expressions, logic of 156-7
fantasy 149, 150-1, 155, 156,
162, 163-4, 165-7
fascism 101, 102, 116-18, 121-3
‘The Faun’s Philosophy”
(Badiou) 198-9, 203.
Fear and Misery in the Third
Reich (Brecht) 119, 122
Febyre, Lucien 75
fetishism 22
fiction
politics of literature
hypothesis 9-10
power of 133-7
verisimilitude of 153-7,
164-5Index
Mallarmé, Stéphane
art-life equivalence 59
Badiou’s philosophy
and 184-205
Borges and French disease 142,
144
politics 80-98, 184-5, 189-91,
192, 199-200, 203-5
Man is Man (Brecht) 104
Marshal, William 168-71, 172,
174
Marxism
Brecht 99-100, 103-6
Mallarmé as poet of
anguish 189-90, 191
politics of literature
hypothesis 21-3
see also communism
mass production 103-4, 125-7
Master Puntil and His Valet
Matti (Brecht) 119
The Masterbuilder (Ibsen) 160-1
materialism 53-4, SZ
meaning(s)
literary
misunderstanding 31-3,
41-2, 43-5
literary truth 156-7, 158-9,
160
Mallarméan poetry 91
politics of literature
hypothesis 14-15, 19-30
Measures Taken (Brecht) 106-7,
108
medicine
death of characters 66-71
politics of literature
hypothesis 24-5
metapolitics 21
Michelet, Jules 20-1
Miller, Jacques-Alain 190
Les Misérables (Hugo) 15, 20,
199
211
misunderstanding, literary 31-45
modernity
Borges and French
disease 134-6
death of Emma Bovary 52-3
politics of literature
hypothesis 5, 6, 17-20
moral truth 152
morality
biography 173
Brecht 106-10, 119-20, 124-7
Moscow Trials 107-8
Mother Courage and Her
Children (Brecht) 102-3,
119-21
mute lives, biography 175, 181.
mutism
literary
misunderstanding 40-1,
44
Mallarmé’s politics 93
polities of literature
hypothesis 12-13, 14, 15,
25-7, 28-9
mystical languor 57, 60
myth and mythology
Borges and French
disease 145-6
Mallarmé’s politics 95-6, 98
politics of literature
hypothesis 17, 18, 19-20
Napoleon 75
narrative order,
biography 169-70, 172-3,
174-5
narrators
Borges and French disease 141,
142-3
death of characters 63-71
The Nay-Sayer (Brecht) 106, 107
Nazi Germany 101, 116-18, 119,
121-3212
New World, Borges on 129
‘The Nights of Labor
(Ranciére) 181-2
nomology, Mallarméan
poetic 91-4
Novel of the Tuis (Brecht) 110,
111-12
“On the Battlefield: Tolstoy,
Literature, History”
(Rancitre) 72-9
On Literature Considered in its
Relationships with Social
Institutions (Staél) 4-5,
17-18
Parallel Lives (Plutarch) 173
Paris, Borges on literary 128-9,
130
Pascal, Blaise 193
Paulinian truth 201-2
Le Paysan de Paris (Aragon) 29
La Peau de chagrin (Balzac) 15,
16, 66-7, 159. 160
perceptible, distribution of the 4,
2B
petrification, literary 7-8, 10, 14,
21, 26
philosophy, poetry and 183-205
Plato and Platonism
Mallarméan poetry 84, 91, 93,
97, 192, 195-6, 197, 198,
202-3
politics of literature
hypothesis 12
truth 152, 164
Plutarch 173, 178
Poe, Edgar Allan 134, 135, 136
Poems in Exile (Brecht) 111
Poetics (Aristotle) 172
poetry
biography and 172-3, 174-7,
182
politics 80-98,
5, 189-91, 192, 199—
200, 203-5
philosophy and 183-205
politics of literature
hypothesis 5-7, 9-11,
15-20, 24-5, 28-9
prosaic life and 54-5
political disagreement 41-2,
43-4
politics, definition 3-4
polities of literature
on the battlefield 72-9
biography 168-82
Borges 128-46
Brecht 99-127
death of characters 49-71
hypotheses 3-30
literary misunderstanding
31-45
Mallarmé 80-98, 184-205
philosophy and 183-205
touch see truth
Polybus 172
Pontmartin, Armand de 38, 39,
53, 133
La Princesse de Cleves 39, 133
private life 17
production 103-6, 111, 112-15,
125-7
Prokofiev, Sergei 78-9
proletariat see workers
property relations 113
Prose pour des Esseintes
(Mallarmé) 187, 196-8
Proust, Marcel
art-life equivalence 59, 61,
63-6, 67, 68
Borges and French disease 130,
131, 132-3, 140, 142, 143
literary
misunderstanding 35-7,
43literary truth 163, 164, 165
psychoanalysis, Freudian
truth 149-67
public life 17
‘The Putting to Death of
Madame Bovary”
(Ranciére) 49-71
racism 101
reading
philosophy-poctry
relation 197-8
in silence 144-5
symptomatic 9, 12-13, 22-9
realism, Borges and French
disease 130-1, 132,
133-4, 137, 142
reality
death of Emma Bovary 50-1
see also life, literature’s
equivalence
literary
misunderstanding 36-9,
4s
literary truth 153, 162-3,
165-6
reality effect 38-9
religion
Mallarméan poetry 81-2,
95-6
the Resurrection 201-2
Renoir, Jean 126
representation, classical order
of 9-10, 11-12, 14-17
Resurrection of Christ 201-2
revolution
Brecht 116-19, 120
literary 184-5
philosophy-poetry
relation 189-91, 192,
199-200
Revue blanche (Mallarmé) 85,
89, 90, 91
Index 213
rhyme, Mallarmé’s politics 97-8
Rimbaud, Arthur 5, 6-7, 29
The Rise and Fall of the City of
Mabagonny (Brecht) 106
Romantic age 15-18
Rosmersholm (Ibsen) 160-1
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 193.
Saint Joan of the Slaughterbouses
(Brecht) 106, 119-20
St Paul 200, 201-2
Sand, Georges 34, 42
Sartre, Jean-Paul
defining literature 5-6, 7-8
literary misunderstanding 33,
36
on Mallarméan poetry 80-1
Schiller, Friedrich 17, 138
schizophrenia 68-71
Schlegel, August-Wilhelm 175-6
Schopenhauer, Arthur 161
Schweyk in the Second World
War (Brecht) 119, 122-3
science 67-8
of history 75-9, 168-82
the Mallarméan poem 81-2
“The Gay Science of Bertolt
Brecht” 99-127
A Sentimental Education
(Flaubert) 162
sickness
death of characters 65-71
literary truth 160-1
politics of literature
hypothesis 24-5
signs
literary
misunderstanding 31-2,
44
literary truth 156-8, 159. 160
Mallarméan poetry 91.
politics of literature
hypothesis 14-15, 19-26214
silent reading 144-5
Sobel, Bernard 102
social hierarchy
Borges and French disease 133
death of Emma Bovary 52, 56
literary
misunderstanding 33-40
Mallarmé’s politics 84-98
see also class relations
social sickness 24-5
socialism, Brecht 99-127
society
excitement 52
politics of literature
hypothesis 11, 17, 21-2
see also social hierarchy
“Solemnity’ (Mallarmé) 97-8
Sonnet en x (Mallarmé) 185
187, 189% 192, 196
space, Mallarmé’s politics 80-1,
83-91, 94-5, 97-8
spectators
Brecht 104, 117-18, 126-7
Mallarmé’s polities 94-6
see also audiences
speech
biography 175
literary
misunderstanding 40-1,
43-4
Mallarmé’s politics 80-1, 93,
of literature
hypothesis 4, 8, 12-15,
20-1
Staél, Madame de 4-5, 17-18
Stalin, Josef 106
Moscow Trials 107-8
Stendhal 76
stereotypes 26-8
structuralism 13-14, 184,
189-91
polit
style
Index
absolute 10-11, 21, 27, 28,
59-60, 139
Borges and French
disease 130-1, 138-9, 145
literary truth 158, 165
subject, theory of 189-90, 191-2
subjectification, political 43-4
suicide
Emma Bovary 49
Mallarméan poetry 89, 91-2
superstition 130-1, 135, 142,
144-5
Surrealism 29
symbols, Mallarmé’s politics 84,
87, 88-93
Taine, Hippolyte 23-4, 39-40
tale
power of 133-7
truth of the 152-3
The Temptation of Saint
Anthony (Flaubert)
60-1
The Theory of the Subject
(Badiou) 185, 186, 189,
196
Thibaudet, Albert 33
Thiers, Adolphe 75
thinking
literary truth 160-2
philosophy-poetry
relation 196-205
The Threepenny Opera
(Brecht) 102-3, 108
Tolstoy, Leo 72-9
Traité du Verbe (Ghil) 81-2
transformation, social 30, 120,
121
truth 149-67
Brechtian 100-3, 111-12,
114-16, 127
philosophy-poetry
relation 185, 201-2, 203Index
‘The Truth Through the
Window: Literary Truth,
Freudian Truth’
(Rancigre) 149-67
Turandot or the Congress of the
Washerwomen (Brecht)
108, 111, 112-14, 124
USA cycle (Dos Passos) 27-8
usefulness theory 105-9, 114-16,
126-7
verisimilitude of fiction 153-7,
164-5
Vico, Giambattista 16, 136
The Village Rector (Balzac) 56
visibility 4, 9-10, 15, 21
Voltaire 12
Wagner, Richard 95-6
The Waning of the Middle Ages
(Huizinga) 178
War and Peace (Tolstoy) 72-9
The Waves (Woolf) 69-71
What is Literature (Sartre) 5-6,
7-8, 33-4
Whitman, Walt 129
Whitmanism 130
The Wild Ass’s Skin see La Peau
de chagrin
will, the, literary truth 158-61
William Marshal (Duby) 168-9,
170-1, 172, 174, 177
windows, truths through 149-67
The Wolfman (Freud) 149-50,
151, 152, 166
Woolf, Virginia 69-71
Word, the 80, 81, 95
words
Borges and French disease 134,
138-9, 141-2, 143-4,
145-6
excess of see descriptive
excess
philosophy-poetry
relation 203-4
power of 66-7
Wordsworth, William 10, 52
workers
Brecht 106-7, 108, 112-13,
115-19, 120-5
lived experience 181-2
Mallarmé’s politics 84-98,
189-91, 199-200
writing
Borges and French
disease 145-6
life and 179-82
literary truth 157-8
Mallarmé’s politics 83-8,
92-3, 98
politics of literature
hypothesis 3, 4-15, 20-9
The Yes-Sayer (Brecht) 106, 107
Zola, Emile
death of characters 67
literary misunderstanding 32
politics of literature
hypothesis 24-5
truth through the window
151, 157