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A Piece of Monologue, 16, 36, 144, 172, 175-192, 196, 203, 209 Index A Piece of Monologue, 16, 36, Beethoven, Ludwig van, 109, 144, 172, 175-192, 196, 153, 166 203, 209, 212, 216, 227, Begam, Richard, 84 230, 242, 246, 247 Benjamin, Walter, 74-75 Abbott, H. Porter, 122, 193- Benveniste, Emile, 32 194, 242 Ben-Zvi, Linda, 31, 33, 88, Acheson, James, 20 145, 161 Act Without Words, 42, 225 Berceuse, 234 Akalaitis, JoAnne, 240 Berkeley, Bishop George, 65 Albright, Daniel, 70-71, 74, Bernold, André, 109 83, 92, 134 Billington, Michael, 148 Aldington, Richard, 20 Bion, Wilfred Ruprecht, 29 All Strange Away, 103 Bishop, Thomas, 124 All That Fall, 30-31, 39, 44- Blake, William, 150 47, 56-57, 59, 66, 68, 73, Blin, Roger, 107, 120 77, 81, 109 Bragg, Melvyn, 154 Antonello da Messina, 133, Brater, Enoch, 11-13, 19, 22, 150 66, 83, 99, 117, 136, 139, Anzieu, Didier, 29 140-141, 155, 165, 183, Aplaugh, David, 73 188, 196, 205, 207-208, 224 Arikha, Avigador, 133, 135 Brecht, Bertolt, 132 Artaud, Antonin, 53-55, 58 Breton, André, 22 As the Story was Told, 123 Briezna, Susan, 221, 224 “Assumption”, 11, 18, 37-38, Browning, Robert, 21 Astier, Pierre, 195 Brustein, Robert, 240 Atik, Anne, 135 Buñuel, Luis, 22 Austin, J. L., 12 ...but the clouds..., 99, 154, Bacon, Francis, 148 171, 181, 188 Bair, Deirdre, 225 Callet, Jeanette Leigh, 11-12 Bakewell, Michael, 108 Caravaggio, Michaelangelo Baldwin, Hélène L, 143 Merisi da, 132-133 Banville, John, 22 Casanova, Pascale, 18, 23 Barthes, Roland, 56 Cascando, 13, 16, 27, 33, 79, Beach, Syliva, 17 107-129, 131, 151-152, 155, Beckett, John, 46, 108 164, 166, 168, 171-173, 274 Say It 202, 210, 246, 248 155, 169, 202, 246–248 Catastrophe, 11 Eich, Günter, 123, Chabert, Pierre, 48, 50, 52-53, Elam, Keir, 143 229, 233-237, 239 Eleutheria, 30, 71 Chaplin, Charlie, 22 Ellmann, Richard, 204 Coe, Richard, 25 Eluard, Paul, 22 Cohn, Ruby, 41, 132, 143, Embers, 16, 33, 36, 46, 58, 64- 153, 188-190, 230 89, 93, 102, 104-105, 110- Come and Go, 120, 169-170 111, 115, 128, 131, 140, Compagnie, 217, 229, 233, 144, 151, 157, 164, 179, 235 184, 222, 242, 246, 248 Company, 16, 80, 172, 216- En attendant Godot, 31 243 Endgame, 30-31, 36, 42-43, Connor, Kim, 127 53, 74-77, 80, 93, 109, 135, Connor, Steven, 179, 181, 179, 182, 207, 212, 240, 188-189 242, 245 Cunard, Nancy, 20 Epstein, Alvin, 211-212 Dali, Salvador, 22 Esslin, Martin, 29, 31, 64, 67, Dällenbach, Lucien, 176 92, 119, 122, 135, 148, 151, Dante, Alighieri, 17, 20, 24 175 “Dante...Bruno.Vico..Joyce”, Feldman, Morton, 115 17, 24, 83, 248 Féral, Josette, 214 Das letzte Band, 41 Fergusson, Honour, 238 Deleuze, Gilles, 97-98, 102, Film, 22, 33, 65-66, 91, 93, 126, 189 195 Descartes, René, 20 Fin de partie, 45, 148 Deschevaux-Dumesnil, Fischer, Eileen, 144, 238-239 Suzanne, 204 Flaubert, Gustave, 15 Devlin, Denis, 23 Footfalls, 93, 120, 129, 133, Docherty, Thomas, 37 143, 150-152, 155, 182, Dolar, Mladen, 12, 13, 52, 69, 199, 201, 205 152 Friedrich, Casper David, 133 Dream of Fair to Middling From an Abandoned Work, 27, Women, 20, 71, 117 45, 59, 62, 225 Driver, Tom, 242 Frost, Everett, 47, 68, 102, Duthuit, Georges, 25 107, 109, 115-116 Dux, Pierre, 235 Geulincx, Arnold, 20 Eh Joe, 16, 33, 58, 87-105, Ghost Trio, 13, 16, 27, 36, 99, 110, 127, 129, 144, 151- 109, 120, 129, 152-174,178, .
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