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Adereth, Maxwell, 189n.15 “Le point sur Robbe-Grillet?”, 190n.23 Adler, Laure, 188n.7 “Literal Literature”, 176n.34 Adorno, Theodor, 126, 153, 189n.14, 193n.1 “Of What Use is an Intellectual?”, 174n.3 Agamben, Giorgio, 188n.33 “The Last Word on Robbe-Grillet?”, 177n.38 Alazet, Bernard, 192n.21 “The Photographic Message”, 176n.23 Algeria, 4, 17, 89–90, 93–95, 116, 123, 129, 165, “The Third Meaning”, 176n.24 172n.6, 183n.5, 184n.18, 185n.33, 185n.30, Camera Lucida, 176n.25 190n.22, 195n.30 literature and action, 9–12 Camus’s representation of, 80–82, 85–92, myth, 6 105–107 Mythologies, 31, 43, 73, 172n.9, 175n.16, 177n.39 Algerian War, 72, 77–79, 85, 89, 97–99, 112–113, on ﬁlm and photography, 34 115–116, 130, 135–137, 185n.33, 190n.27 on Flaubert, 27–31, 41 and international politics, 84–85 on Mallarmé, 41–42 and literature, 79 on Robbe-Grillet, 39–40 Duras’s journalism on, 124–125 on Sartre, 166 intellectuals and the Algerian War, 4–5, 84–85, on The Stranger, 31–34 123–124, 126–127, 129, 137–138, 164–165 political position, 7 opposition to, 68–69, 84 Writing Degree Zero, 11, 17, 24–44, 50, 53, 55, Algiers, 79–80, 82 58, 65, 77, 125, 160, 174n.1, 179n.18, 194n.16, Alleg, Henri 195n.34 The Question, 84 Bataille, Georges, 9, 47–48, 60, 65, 72, 76–78, Althusser, Louis, 70 141, 164, 177, 179, 182 Antelme, Robert, 78, 84, 127–128, 183n.37, 182n.36 Inner Experience, 60, 78, 179 Apter, Emily, 184n.18 Literature and Evil, 173n.20, 182n.29 Arabs, 86–87, 89–91, 106, 110 The Accursed Share, 191n.14 Aron, Raymond, 4, 11, 82, 171n.5, 183n.5 Battle of Algiers, 8 Augustine, St. Beckett, Samuel, 35–36, 38, 146–147, 158–159, Confessions, 100 176n.29, 182n.35, 194n.13 Austin, J. L., 1 Benjamin, Walter, 79, 183n.1 Berbers, 87, 91 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 57, 162 Bersani, Leo, 18, 29, 53, 71, 130, 141, 161, 174n.37, Balzac, Honoré de, 29 174n.36, 175n.9, 175n.8, 176n.28, 176n.26, Barthes, Roland, 2–3, 5, 15, 17–20, 47, 59, 71, 178n.14, 190n.25, 194n.20 76–78, 80, 93, 95, 114, 128–129, 134, 137, 141, on Beckett, 35–36 150–152, 158, 160, 162–165, 168–170, 171n.3, Bersani, Leo and Dutoit, Ulysse, 35–37, 158, 182n.35 176n.31, 176n.30, 176n.27, 194n.12 “Dare to Be Lazy”, 160–161, 194n.19, 194n.18, Bident, Christophe, 178n.11, 179n.2 194n.17 Bildungsroman, 175n.14 “Flaubert and the Sentence”, 175n.12 Blanchot, Maurice, 2–3, 15, 17–21, 33, 80, 84, “La Peste. Annales d’une épidémie ou roman 92–93, 95, 101, 104, 114, 127–128, 134–135, de la solitude?”, 190n.23 137, 150–151, 160, 162–165, 168–170

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“By the Power of Refusal”, 136, 191n.4 on Writing Degree Zero, 50 “Communication”, 77, 182n.34 political position, 7 “Destroy”, 140, 191n.13 récit, 45–59, 61, 76, 152, 157–159 “Forgetting, Unreason”, 159, 180n.14, 194n.15 The Book to Come, 179n.17 “From Lautréamont to Miller”, 178n.13 The Infinite Conversation, 180n.5 “Idle Speech”, 48–50, 158, 178n.8, 194n.11 The Last Man, 11, 21, 61–78, 93, 96, 125, 128, “Literature and the Right to Death”, 68 140, 180n.4 “Literature One More Time”, 54, 178n.16 The Madness of the Day, 179n.21 “Maurice Blanchot to Jean-Paul Sartre”, The Space of Literature, 68, 161, 194n.21 180n.20 The Writing of the Disaster, 183n.37 “Mystery in Literature”, 52–53, 178n.13 Booth, Wayne, 33, 114, 162–163, 176n.20, 188n.34, “On One Approach to Communism”, 195n.26 182n.31 Boumaza, Bachir “Pre-texte: Pour l’amitié”, 180n.11 The Gangrene, 84 “Refusal”, 68, 136, 191n.3 Bourdieu, Pierre, 4, 9, 110, 173n.19, 187n.26 “The Clarity of the Novel”, 176n.35, 182n.35 Bousquet, Joë, 51, 53 “The Detour Toward Simplicity”, 100–101, Brée, Germaine, 186n.4 186n.8 “The Disappearance of Literature”, 141, 192n.17 Cahiers du Cinéma, 134, 138, 140, 142, 165 “The Fall: The Flight”, 98–99, 186n.6 Caillois, Roger, 69, 180n.12 “The Gravity of the Project”, 181n.21, 181n.22 Camus, Albert, 2–4, 15, 17–19, 21–22, 28, 37–38, “The Igitur Experience”, 70–72, 180n.13 127, 133–134, 137, 150, 152, 155, 158, 160, 162, “The Indestructible”, 182n.36 164, 168–170, 195n.30 “The Limit-Experience”, 183n.38 “Algeria 1958”, 184n.18, 187n.18 “The Myth of Mallarmé”, 51, 70, 178n.13, “Appeal for a Civilian Truce in Algeria”, 178n.6 184n.12 “The Narrative Voice”, 50, 178n.10 “Avant-propos à ‘La Maison du Peuple’ de “The Pain of Dialogue”, 57, 179n.22, 182n.35 Louis Guilloux”, 186n.7 “The Paradox of Aytré”, 51–52, 54, 58, “Letter to an Algerian Militant”, 184n.15 178n.13 “Lettre d’Albert Camus à René Char, 18 mars “The Passion of Indifference”, 74, 180n.17 1959”, 183n.4 “The Power and the Glory”, 168, 197n.43, “Nobel Banquet Speech”, 168, 197n.41 197n.42 “Preface to Algerian Reports”, 195n.29 “The Relation of the Third Kind”, 161–162, “Preface to Lyrical and Critical Essays”, 195n.24 184n.13 “The Search for Point Zero”, 50, 178n.11, “Terrorism and Repression”, 108 182n.33, 182n.32 “Terrorisme et répression”, 187n.21 “The Secret Law of the Récit”, 177n.2 “The Adulterous Woman, The”, 106 “The Silence of Mallarmé”, 70, 178n.6 “The Artist and His Time”, 186n.5, 195n.30 “The Song of the Sirens”, 45–47, 50, 54–57, “The Growing Stone”, 106 158, 179n.19 “The Guest”, 85, 89, 104–105, 107–112, 128 “The Work and the Errant Word”, 182n.29 “The Renegade”, 186n.13 “Translated From...”, 53–54, 178n.13 “The Silent Men”, 112 “Where Now? Who Now”, 182n.35 Algerian Reports, 87, 165 and Levinas, 182n.28 and Sartre, 14–15, 83, 93, 112–114, 164–165 and Sartre, 73–75, 158–159 Carnets II, 184n.14 literature and action, 9–12 Carnets III, 183n.10, 184n.20 on Duras, 57 Exile and the Kingdom, 11, 21, 86, 90, 98, on Hemingway, 53–54 104–107, 109, 112, 114, 124–125, 186n.14 on Mallarmé, 48, 51, 70–72 literature and action, 9–12 on Melville, 55–56 Neither Victims Nor Executioners, 83, 183n.6 on Proust, 55–56 political position, 7 on The Fall, 98–99 Reflections on the Guillotine, 111 on The Talker, 48–50 The Fall, 21, 84, 93, 98–106, 108, 111, 113–114, on The Voyeur, 39 122, 124–125, 186n.13, 186n.10, 186n.4

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Camus, Albert (cont.) Dib, Mohammed, 190n.22 The First Man, 11, 68, 79–96, 98, 105–106, Diên Biên Phu (Vietnam), 6 111–114, 125, 152, 183n.3, 187n.16 Dine, Philip, 6, 172n.10 The Plague, 112, 129, 187n.29 Djebar, Assia, 190n.22 The Rebel, 83–84, 98–99, 103, 186n.13, 186n.5, Domenach, Jean-Marie, 73 186n.2 Doubrovsky, Serge, 80, 183n.2 The Stranger, 25–26, 31–34, 87, 98, 111–112, Duras, Marguerite, 2–3, 15, 17–19, 22–23, 84, 158, 175n.17, 187n.28 160, 162, 164–166, 168–170, 182n.35 The Wrong Side and the Right Side, 85 “20 May 1968”, 136–137, 191n.5 Carroll, David, 87, 89, 109, 184n.16, 187n.25 “Destruction and Language”, 134–136, 138–142, Caruth, Cathy, 128, 189n.21 191n.1, 195n.31 Cayrol, Jean, 33 “In the Gardens of Israel”, 192n.27 Cazalis, Henri, 71 “Non-Work”, 195n.32 Char, René, 81 “Paris, August Six”, 124–125, 189n.11 Cléder, Jean, 192n.21 “Racism in Paris”, 124–125, 189n.10 Clément, René, 138 “The Path of Joyful Despair”, 191n.9, 195n.33 Coleman, Peter, 171n.5 “The Two Ghettos”, 124–125, 189n.13, 189n.12 collaboration (with Nazism), 103, 120, 123 “Un acte contre tout pouvoir”, 191n.10 College of Sociology, 69 Abahn Sabana David, 191n.11 colonial (colony, precolonial, postcolonial), 3, 22, Agatha, 143, 192n.20 58, 92, 106, 109, 124, 130, 138, 172n.13, Algerian War, 123–125 176n.37, 185n.30, 189n.15, 190n.22 Aurélia Steiner, 142 colonialism (colonization), 4, 21, 40, 58, 94, 103, Destroy, She Said, 134, 138–142, 145, 149 109, 123–124, 132, 136, 176n.37 feminism, 192n.18 colonized, 107, 109, 185n.32, 189n.15 Hiroshima Mon Amour, 11, 22–23, 115–136, 149, colonizer (colon, colonist), 89, 106–107, 109, 127, 152, 188n.2 187n.24 India Song, 142, 144 Combat, 83 L’homme atlantique, 192n.24 Communards, 157 Les Parleuses, 192n.18 Communism, 4, 7, 70, 77, 127–128, 138, 153 literature and action, 9–12 Connelly, Matthew, 6, 172n.12 Moderato Cantabile, 116, 123 Constable, E. L., 112, 187n.27 political position, 7, 138 Corsica, 124 Savannah Bay, 143 Critchley, Simon, 166, 196n.35 The Atlantic Man, 143, 147 Crouzet, Michel, 4, 171n.4 The Lover, 143 Crowley, Martin, 120, 182n.36, 183n.8, 188n.4, The Malady of Death, 143–144, 148, 192n.28, 189n.19 192n.26, 192n.19 The Man Sitting in the Corridor, 143, 148, Davies, Paul, 182n.28 192n.25 Davis, Colin, 89, 102, 107, 184n.22, 186n.12, The Truck, 142 187n.20 The Viaducts of Seine-et-Oise, 116 Davis, Howard, 8, 173n.17 Writing, 193n.30 de Beauvoir, Simone, 13, 83, 93 Dutoit, Ulysse, 190n.25, 194n.20 Hard Times, 180n.18, 183n.7 on Sartre, 74 Egypt, 6 The Ethics of Ambiguity, 173n.26 Ekman, Paul, 97 de Chalonge, Florence, 192n.21 Eskin, Michael, 95, 185n.35 de Gaulle, Charles, 111, 123–124, 136–137, 189n.15 de Laclos, Pierre Choderlos, 162 Fanon, Frantz, 7, 126, 185n.32 de Man, Paul, 2, 17, 66, 171n.2, 174n.34, 180n.8 Fascism, 6, 153, 193n.1 decolonization, 21, 23, 40, 72, 78, 135, 138, 172n.14 Faulkner, William, 53, 155, 185n.30 Derrida, Jacques, 88, 161, 179n.21, 184n.19, Felman, Shoshana, 101–102, 122, 186n.9 187n.19, 195n.22 Feraoun, Mouloud, 92, 185n.30 des Forêts, Louis-René, 178n.9 Ferenczi, Sandor, 97 The Talker, 48–50, 56 Fernandez, Ramon, 178n.12

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ﬀrench, Patrick, 182n.30 Jay, Martin, 149, 192n.29 Flaubert, Gustave, 27–31, 37–38, 74, 175n.7, Jeanson, Francis, 7–8, 84, 105, 186n.15 189n.16 Joly, Danièle, 4, 171n.6 Sentimental Education, 28–29 Judt, Tony, 4, 8, 171n.5, 172n.15 FLN (National Liberation Front), 4, 9, 123–124 Keenan, Thomas, 16, 173n.31 For a Negotiated Peace in Algeria, 73 Khrushchev, Nikita, 4, 70 Foucault, Michel, 72 Klossowski, Pierre, 53, 178n.15 France-Observateur, 124, 136 Kofman, Sarah, 128, 189n.17 French Algeria, 68, 183n.5, 190n.27 Kojève, Alexandre, 70 Freud, Anna, 97 Kristeva, Julia, 147, 192n.23 Freud, Sigmund, 91, 97, 184n.26, 188n.5 Kritzman, Lawrence D., 187n.17 Frey, Hans-Jost, 67, 180n.9 Kundera, Milan Fynsk, Christopher, 75, 181n.21 The Joke, 10

Galand, René, 176n.37 LaCapra, Dominick, 102, 122, 186n.11, 188n.6 Gauthier, Xavière, 192n.18 Lacoste, Robert, 172n.6 Genet, Jean, 154, 186n.4 Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe, 30, 175n.13 Genette, Gérard, 30, 34, 175n.12, 175n.11, 175n.10, Laplanche, Jean, 91, 184n.27 176n.22 Laporte, Roger, 47, 178n.5 Gide, André, 45, 50 Large, William, 182n.28 Goldmann, Lucien, 24, 70, 141, 176n.37, 191n.16, Lartéguy, Jean 191n.15 The Centurions, 5 Gorz, André, 73–74 Laub, Dori, 186n.9 Greimas, A. J., 24 Lautréamont (Isidore-Lucien Ducasse), 51 Guérin, Jean-Yves, 87, 184n.17 Le 14 Juillet, 68–69 Guerlac, Suzanne, 172n.16 Le Figaro, 183n.5 Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich, 159, 194n.14 Le Goﬀ, Jacques, 73 Le Monde, 195n.30 Hamacher, Werner, 153, 167, 193n.2, 197n.37 Le Sueur, James D., 9, 173n.19, 185n.33 Hart, Elizabeth, 187n.23 LeBlanc, John, 91, 184n.28 Hart, Kevin, 46, 51, 75, 177n.3, 178n.12, 179n.20, Leenhardt, Jacques, 176n.37 181n.24 Lefebvre, Henri, 11, 173n.21 Hartman, Geoﬀrey H., 183n.37 Lefort, Claude, 8 Hegel, G. W. F., 25, 30–31, 131 Leiris, Michel, 84 Heidegger, Martin, 48, 70, 159 Les Temps Modernes, 74, 83 Hemingway, Ernest, 51, 53–54, 131, 158 Levinas, Emmanuel, 161–162, 182n.28, 195n.23 Hill, Leslie, 75, 137, 180n.3, 181n.23, 191n.7 Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 24, 70, 93, 185n.31 Hiroshima, 116–124, 129–131 Leys, Ruth, 97, 186n.1 Holland, Michael, 179n.2 Lottman, Herbert, 84, 184n.11, 186n.6, Hollier, Denis, 154, 169, 193n.4, 197n.44 195n.30 Holocaust, 78, 123, 127, 183n.37 Lukács, Georg, 26, 31, 156, 174n.5, 174n.4, Homer 175n.14, 194n.9 The Odyssey, 46 Horn, Alistair, 90, 184n.24 Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1–2, 15, 41–43, 48, 51, 70–71, 146–147, 155, 171n.1, 182n.35, Izard, Carroll, 97 196n.36 Un Coup de dés, 1 Jacobs, Carol, 16, 173n.30 Manifesto of the 121, 68, 73–75, 123, 136 Jakobson, Roman, 49, 145–146, 192n.22 Marx-Scouras, Danielle, 129, 190n.22 James, Henry, 162 Mascolo, Dionys, 68–69, 77, 84, 127–128, 136, Jameson, Fredric, 43, 168, 173n.29, 173n.28, 150, 168, 189n.18, 191n.2, 193n.31 173n.27, 177n.40 Mauriac, François, 7 literature and politics, 13–14 May ’68, 23, 68, 75, 134–137, 141, 151, 190n.27 Jaspers, Karl, 97 Mechakra, Yamina, 190n.22

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Melville, Herman Realpolitik, 12, 151 Moby Dick, 55–56 récit, 84, 95, 98, 143, 157–159 Memmi, Albert, 109, 187n.24 Renan, Ernest, 132, 190n.31 Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 4, 8, 73, 75, 93, 181n.25, Resistance (against Nazism), 9, 114 185n.31 Resnais, Alain, 36, 116, 123–124, 188n.8 Miller, Henry, 51 Ricoeur, Paul, 69, 73, 175n.15, 180n.10 Miller, J Hillis, 182n.33 Rigney, Ann, 190n.29 MNA (Algerian National Movement), 4 Rimbaud, Arthur, 157, 159–160 Mollet, Guy, 171n.6 Rivette, Jacques, 134–135, 139, 141–142, 147, 165 Moretti, Franco, 175n.14 Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 38–40, 129–130, 149, Morisi, Eve Célia, 108, 187n.22 176n.37, 182n.35 Morocco, 6 For a New Novel, 176n.32 Mukařovský, Jan, 16, 174n.32 Jealousy, 39, 176n.33 The Voyeur, 39–40 Nabokov, Vladimir, 163 Robbins, Jill, 182n.28 Narboni, Jean, 134–135, 139–140, 142, 147, 165 Rollin, Denise, 60 Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 6 Rooney, Ellen, 17, 174n.33 Nathanson, Donald, 97 Ross, George, 172n.6 Naturalism, 41 Ross, Kristin, 130, 151, 157, 168, 190n.26, 190n.24, Nazism, 78, 103, 127, 130 193n.32, 194n.10, 197n.38 New Novel, 38–40, 130, 176n.37 Roth, Michael S., 119, 188n.3 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 70, 83, 179n.2 Rothko, Mark, 36 Nobel Prize, 79, 168, 195n.30 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 2 Nomads, 90–91, 106, 108 Rousso, Henry, 130, 190n.27 Nora, Pierre, 91, 184n.25 Nouvelle Nouvelle Revue Française, 77 Said, Edward, 92, 185n.29 Nussbaum, Martha, 113, 162–163, 173n.25, Sanyal, Debarati, 95, 99, 185n.34, 186n.4 173n.24, 173n.23, 187n.30, 195n.25 Saroyan, William, 51–52 literature and ethics, 13 Sarraute, Nathalie, 65, 180n.6 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1–4, 27, 29, 68, 78, 84, 89, 112, O’Brien, Conor Cruise, 90, 184n.23 128, 159–160, 162–163, 168–170, 185n.33 Occupation (Nazi occupation of France), “Albert Camus”, 113, 187n.32 124–125, 130 “Camus’s Outsider”, 155, 175n.19, 194n.7 Oedipus, 99 “François Mauriac and Freedom”, 155, 194n.6 Orientalism, 106 “On The Sound and the Fury”, 155, 194n.7 “Preface to André Gorz’s The Traitor”, Panaïté, Oana, 176n.37 180n.16 Paris Commune, 157 “Preface to The Wretched of the Earth”, Passerini, Luisa, 190n.29 126–127, 185n.32, 189n.16 Paulhan, Jean, 51, 58 “Reply to Albert Camus”, 103, 183n.9 PCF (French Communist Party), 4, 7, 70, Algerian War, 5, 126–127, 164 137–138, 171n.6 and Blanchot, 73–75, 158–159 Pecora, Vincent P., 173n.22 and Camus, 14–15, 83, 93, 112–114, 164–165 Phelan, James, 96, 185n.36 Anti-Semite and Jew, 113 pieds-noirs, 86–87, 89–90, 94, 107 Critique of Dialectical Reason, 73, 180n.15 Ponge, Francis, 75, 181n.25 engagement, 7–9, 125–127, 137–138, 154–157 Pontalis, Jean-Bertrand, 91, 184n.27 Existentialism is a Humanism, 70 Pouillon, Jean, 24 Literature and Existentialism, 193n.3 Poulet, Georges, 65, 180n.7 on The Rebel, 99 Proust, Marcel, 28, 175n.6 on The Stranger, 32–33 In Search of Lost Time, 55–56, 79 Saint Genet, 154, 186n.4, 193n.5 Search for a Method, 70, 74, 154, 164, 195n.28, Rabaté, Dominique, 17, 174n.35, 178n.7 195n.27 Rabelais, François, 41 The Condemned of Altona, 114, 124 Rancière, Jacques, 75, 167, 173n.27, 181n.26, The Family Idiot, 189n.16 182n.27, 196–197n.36 The Reprieve, 166

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