Contents ( 51)
- Roberto Calasso
- Contents
- Note for Lucien
- Living in the Torrent
- Exempla Voluptatis
- The Grand Ball
- Treacherous Trifles
- Dismal Glory
- “The Mysterious Force of Legitimacy”
- Arcana Imperii
- The Origins of Sweetness
- Eulogius
- L’Autrichienne
- The Woodcutter and the Fisherman
- Goethe in Venice
- On Taste
- Metamorphoses of Style
- A Belated Nostalgia for Sorrow
- The Languor of a Park in Berry
- Around Port-Royal
- The Ruin of Kasch
- Among the Ruins of Kasch
- Elements of Sacrifice
- Law and Order
- The Forest Doctrine
- Archives and Will-o’-the-Wisps
- Postcards from the Quaternary
- The Demon of Repetition
- Goethe’s Birthday
- Sacrificial Crumbs
- The Antiromantic Child
- Limits
- Process
- Glosses on Marx
- Ricardo’s Ruthlessness
- Geldkristall
- History Makes Experiments
- The Artificial Barbarian
- Un frisson nouveau
- Behind the Glass
- Bien-aimé
- A Visit to Picpus
- “The Organization Wouldn’t Like That”
- The Moscow Doorkeeper
- Montaigne’s Wake
- The Wolf-Man Recalls
- Voices from the Palais-Royal
- Mundus Patet
- Letter from Saint Petersburg
- Notes
- THE BEGINNING
98 Talleyrand, Mémoires, cit., p. 326.
99 Ibid.
100 Sainte-Beuve, Madame de Genlis, in Causeries du lundi, cit., vol. III, 1928, p. 25.
101 Talleyrand, Mémoires, cit., p. 327.
102 Ibid.
103 Pierre Louis Roederer, Mémoires sur la Révolution, le Consulat et l’Empire, Plon, Paris, 1942, p. 173.
104 Stendhal, correspondence of February 10, 1826, for the New Monthly Magazine, in Courrier anglais, Le Divan, Paris, vol. II, 1935, p. 479.
105 Stendhal, correspondence of February 1, 1825, for the New Monthly Magazine, in Courrier anglais, cit., vol. II, pp. 256–57.
106 Stendhal, correspondence of April 1827 for the New Monthly Magazine, in Courrier anglais, cit., vol. III, 1935, pp. 338–42.
107 Léon Bloy, L’Âme de Napoléon, cit., p. 301.
108 Ibid., p. 316.
109 Carl Schmitt, Theorie des Partisanen, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 1975, p. 12.
110 Ibid., p. 78.
111 Léon Bloy, Histoires désobligeantes, Crès, Paris, 1914, p. 223.
112 Mémoires de Madame de Rémusat, cit., vol. III, 1880, p. 265.
113 Léon Bloy, Le Sang du pauvre, Stock, Paris, 1922, p. 31.
114 Ibid., p. 34.
115 Guglielmo Ferrero, Potere, Comunità, Milan, 1947, p. 34.
116 Ibid., p. 52.
117 Letter from Talleyrand to the Duchess of Courland, July 25, 1820, in Georges Lacour-Gayet, Talleyrand, Payot, Paris, vol. III, 1931, pp. 107–108.
118 [Charles-Maxime de Villemarest], Monsieur de Talleyrand, J.-P. Roret, Paris, vol. I, 1834, p. 168.
119 Max Stirner, Der Einzige und sein Eigentum, Reclam, Stuttgart, 1972, p. 29.
120 Louis Dumont, Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective, University of Chicago Press, 1986.
121 Ibid., p. 142.
122 Ibid., p. 144.
123 Mémoires de la comtesse Potocka, Plon, Paris, 1911, p. 65.
124 James G. Frazer, The Golden Bough, Macmillan, London, 1976, p. 810.
125 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Occasions: 1912–1951, ed. J. Klagge and A. Nordmann, Hackett, Indianapolis, 1993, p. 147.
126 Sainte-Beuve, Chateaubriand et son groupe littéraire sous l’Empire, cit., vol. I, 1948, p. 38.
127 Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Mort à crédit, Gallimard, Paris, 1962, p. 501.
128 Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Lettres à des amies, in Cahiers Céline 5, Gallimard, Paris, 1979, p. 198.
129 Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Mort à crédit, cit., p. 501.
130 Joseph de Maistre, Considérations sur la France, Rusand, Lyon-Paris, 1829, p. 111.
131 Ibid., p. 94.
132 Ibid., p. 104.
133 Ibid., p. 31.
134 Louis Massignon, Le Voeu et le destin, in Opera minora, Dar Al-Maaref, Beirut, vol. III, 1963, p. 697.
135 Charles Nodier, Souvenirs, épisodes et portraits pour servir à l’histoire de la Révolution et de l’Empire, Hauman, Brussels, vol. I, 1835, p. l.
136 Ibid., p. 2.
137 Ibid., p. 14.
138 Léon Bloy, La Chevalière de la mort, in Œuvres, cit., vol. V, p. 52.
139 Charles Nodier, Souvenirs …, cit., p. 18.
140 Metternich, Mémoires, documents et écrits divers, cit., vol. I, 1880, p. 7.
141 Ibid., p. 8.
142 Ibid.
143 Charles Nodier, Souvenirs …, cit., pp. 3–4.
144 Ibid., p. 5.
145 Ibid., p. 6.
146 Ibid., p. 15.
147 Jules Michelet, Histoire de la Révolution française, Gallimard, Paris, vol. II, 1977, p. 679.