User:DeRossitt/List of cultural references in Philippe Sollers' Women
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[edit]- Sentimental Education [2], novel by Gustave Flaubert
- Alice in Wonderland [3], book by Lewis Carroll
- St. Ambrose [4], 4th century Doctor of the Church and Roman governor.
- Michelangelo Antonioni [5], Italian film director.
- Louis Aragon [6], French poet and leading Surrealist.
- Armandine (first French test tube baby) [7]
- The Assumption by Bernini[8]
B
[edit]- Bach's Cantata No. 6[9]
- Monument to Balzac[10], statue by Rodin in Paris.
- Barcelona[11]
- Charles Baudelaire[12] (1821–1867), French poet.
- Simone de Beauvoir[13] (1908–1986), French writer and feminist.
- Saul Bellow[14]
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini[15] (1598–1680), Italian sculptor and architect.
- Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi[16] (Fountain of the Four Rivers), a fountain in the Piazza Navona in Rome.
- Bethlehem[17]
- Black Spring[18], novel by Henry Miller
- Black Virgin[19]
- Bois de Boulogne[20], a park in Paris
- Book of Revelation[21]
- Bordeaux Chronicles[22]
- Bjorn Borg[23], a Swedish former world No. 1 tennis player, whom Will considers a cautionary example.
- Charles Borromeo [4]
- Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet[24]
- Boulevard Saint-Michel[25]
- Bouvard and Pecuchet[26], novel by Flaubert
- Charles Bovary[27]
- Emma Bovary[28]
- Leonid Brezhnev[29]
- Buddha[30]
- Charles Bukowski[31], American novelist
- Anthony Burgess[32], British novelist
- William S. Burroughs[33], American novelist
- Statue of Lord Byron in the Villa Borghese gardens[34]
C
[edit]- Caffe Reggio[35], café in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan, which Will and Deb used to frequent in their student days.
- John Cage[36]
- Calypso[37]
- Louis Ferdinand Céline[38]
- Cervantes[39]
- Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, St. Peter's Basilica[40]
- François-René de Chateaubriand (statue)[34]
- François-René de Chateaubriand[41]
- Christianity[42]
- Christ[43]
- Circe[37]
- Cleopatra[44]
- Confucius[45]
- Cosi Fan Tutti[46]
- Cote d'Azur[5]
- Council of Trent[47]
- The Crack-Up [48]
D
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- Dandyism[49]
- Hotel Danieli[50]
- Dante Alighieri[51]
- Lorenzo Da Ponte[52]
- David[53]
- Lorenzo Da Ponte[52]
- Joseph de Maistre[54]
- Dead Sea Scrolls[55]
- Detective novels[56]
- Diderot 241
- Dionysus[57]
- Don Giovanni, opera by Mozart [58]
- Fyodor Dostoevsky[59]
E
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[edit]- William Faulkner[64]
- Kathleen Ferrier[65]
- F. Scott Fitzgerald[14]
- Caffè Florian[66]
- James George Frazer
- Sigmund Freud[67]
- Frick Collection[68]
G
[edit]- Giudecca[69]
- Goethe[70]
- Goethe Statue at the Villa Borghese gardens[34]
- Grand Canal[71]
- Great Gatsby[48]
- Greenwich Village[72]
H
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I'm broke, but Flora pays ... I'll pay her back in Paris."
- Haifa 435
- Halley's Comet[73]
- Harpsichord[74]
- Joseph Haydn[75]
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel[75]
- Ernest Hemingway[18]
- Billie Holliday[65]
- Hotel Danieli,[76]
- Hotel Raphael[15] in Rome
- Hyde Park[77] (London)
I
[edit]J
[edit]- Jericho[81]
- John Paul II[29], Pope
- James Joyce[82]
- Judith[83]
- Juliette novel by Sade [84]
K
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[edit]- Wanda Landowska[89]
- Les Demoiselles d'Avignon[90]
- Vie de Rancé by François-René de Chateaubriand[91]
- Lingbao[92]
- Lod Airport[93]
- Louis XIV[15]
- The Louvre[15]
- The Luna Hotel[94]
- Luxembourg Gardens[95]
M
[edit]- Macbeth[49]
- Niccolo Machiavelli[96]
- Madame Bovary[2]
- Madonna del Rosario[97]
- The Magic Flute[98]
- Norman Mailer[14]
- Manichaeism[51]
- Pierre de Marivaux[99]
- Gabriel García Márquez[100]
- John McEnroe[23]
- Herman Melville[101]
- Jules Michelet's Renaissance and Reformation[15]
- Milan Cathedral[102]
- Yukio Mishima[103]
- moliere 340
- Michel de Montaigne[45]
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart[104]
- Museum of Modern Art[90]
N
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[edit]- Flannery O'Connor[51]
- Oedipus 326
- One Fifth, restaurant in New York City https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/15/arts/diner-s-journal.html
P
[edit]- Pantheon (Paris)[107]
- Pantheon (Rome)[108]
- Parc de la Ciutadella[109]
- Blaise Pascal[110]
- Pazzi Chapel[111]
- Piazza del Duomo[112]
- Piazza Navona[113]
- Pablo Picasso[14]
- Plaza Hotel[114]
- The Polish Rider[68]
- Pope Pius VI[115]
- Ezra Pound[51]
- Marcel Proust[116]
- Pylon (novel)[117]
Q
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[edit]- Rape of Proserpine[8]
- Arthur Rimbaud[118]
- Hôtel Ritz Paris[119]
- Rosemary's Baby[120], film directed by Roman Polanski
- Philip Roth[14]
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau[121]
- Zuzana Ruzickova[75]
S
[edit]- Marquis de Sade[122]
- Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon[110]
- J. D. Salinger[114]
- Santa Maria della Salute[123]
- Santa Croce, Florence[124]
- The Giotto frescoes in the side chapel at Basilica de Santa Croce[124]
- Sarah[80]
- Jean-Paul Sartre [125]
- Savannah, Georgia[126]
- Savini's[127]
- Alessandro Scarlatti[128]
- Friedrich Schlegel[62]
- Gershom Scholem[129]
- Madame de Sevigne[110]
- William Shakespeare[130]
- Side chapel with the Giottos[131]
- Snark[132]
- Socrates[30]
- Sodom[133]
- Song of Songs[134]
- Southhampton[135]
- The Spirit of Christianity [102] - Book by Chateaubriand
- Spiritual Exercises[136]
- Santa Maria Maggiore[8]
- St. Mark's corpse[137]
- St. Patrick's Cathedral[138]
- St. Paul[110]
- St. Peter's[139]
- St. Thomas[140]
- Theodore of Amasea[58]
- Stakhanovism[141]
- Laurence Sterne[142]
- William Styron[143]
T
[edit]- Taoism 335-336
- Tertullian
- Tiepolo[144]
- Leo Tolstoy[59]
- Fontana del Tritone, Rome[145]
- Leon Trotsky[37]
- Shroud of Turin[112]
- Lao Tzu[92]
V
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[edit]- Otto Weininger[147]
- The Well-Tempered Clavier[75]
- The Wild Palms[117] (William Faulkner novel)
- Women[31], novel by Charles Bukowski
References
[edit]- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 50.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 480: "'I prefer Madame Bovary,' I answer ... 'I find l'Education rather long and drawn-out.... It's dated... It bored Flaubert himself ... The women are impossible...'" Cite error: The named reference "FOOTNOTESollers1990480" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 333: "How entertaining life can be with these comings and goings, trips, detours and masquerades, this farce and endless playacting ... what Deb, with an irony that's half amused and half bitter, calls my 'larks' ... Larks, nonsense ... 'Nonsense' comes into Alice in Wonderland, which Stephen's just reading ... The Cheshire Cat! Which disappears, leaving only its grin ..."
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 159: "Italy ... Milan ... And where do I go when I get there? You'll never guess ... I go to see St. Ambrose ... His mummy, in the little crypt of the basilica named after him ... Milan for me is St. Ambrose and St. Charles Borromeo rather than La Scala ..."
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 323: "Here, old sport, I've brought you back a gem ... An article on Antonioni, about his film Identification of a Woman ... our subject! Our subject! .... According to Antonioni, a man can't understand the whole of a woman's behavior rationally." Cite error: The named reference "FOOTNOTESollers1990323" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 271, 415: "S. had the same sort of experience when he was twenty and put forward as a young writer with a future by Mauriac and Aragon both at the same time... He doesn't like talking about that time of his life very much ... He's ashamed of it ... As he is of the little novel he published then and that he's done all he could do withdraw from circulation ..."
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 275.
- ^ a b c d Sollers 1990, p. 248.
- ^ Solllers 1990, p. 236: "I've just been listening to Bach's Cantata No. 6, Stay with us for the night is nigh ... I seem to hear that Polish poem against the shifting background of the choir's great solemn protest ..."
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 311: "At the Vavin intersection, Rodin's statue of Balzac, lit up... Balzac keeps watch ... No one sees him ... There he is, recoiling like another Moses amazed by an apparition of God ... At the foot of Mount Sinai ... The mountain of books he wrote ... Against the stream of all Paris, rushing toward the Seine along the darkened river of the boulevard ... a bronze monk ... Every so often a kid comes and pees on his plinth ... Great nineteenth-century phallus ... The human comedy ..."
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 332: "I rush to Barcelona ... The Peking Circus is giving a couple of performances there, as no doubt you've guessed... I know Barcelona like the back of my hand ... An old habit from my youth ... To go there and vanish is child's play to me ..."
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 21, 57, 212, 311.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 415.
- ^ a b c d e Sollers 1990, p. 59.
- ^ a b c d e Sollers 1990, p. 239. Cite error: The named reference "FOOTNOTESollers1990239" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 242.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 426.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 447.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 494.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 56.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 300.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 463.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 130.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 73, 407.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 482.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 326.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 176.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 72, 109, 176.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 214.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 28.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 197.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 308.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 120.
- ^ a b c Sollers 1990, p. 241.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 554.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 545.
- ^ a b c Sollers 1990, p. 65.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 244, 259, 260, 404, 535.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 435, 553.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 240.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 73, 216.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 24.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 28, 328, 556–557.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 17.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 21.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 541.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 331.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 324.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 22.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 530.
- ^ a b c d Sollers 1990, p. 47.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 525.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 556–557.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 212.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 432.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 150.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 122.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 511: "Louise ... She's here for a concert ... With her Austrian girlfriend ... I hadn't realized she'd become famous ... The day after tomorrow Inge is singing Zerline in Mozart's Don Giovanni ..." Cite error: The named reference "FOOTNOTESollers1990511" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 180.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 413.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 330.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 339.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 56-57: "As Shakespeare says, the man or woman who has no music in his or her soul is dark as Erebus ... Music—in other words gratuitousness, magnanimity, tolerance, pearly indifference ... Watteau? A little breeze, the leaves stir, the harpsichord twangs ..."
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 5, 134.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 469.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 511, 549.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 206.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 411.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 508.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 260.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 540.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 164.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 466.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 256.
- ^ a b c d e Sollers 1990, p. 12. Cite error: The named reference "FOOTNOTESollers199012" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 164, 530.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 363.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 453.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 102.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 115.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 422.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 150, 465: "'Suspicious ... Contaminated in Europe ... Irregular and murky private life ... Confirmed that he's writing a novel ... So could give things away between the lines ... It would be a nuisance if it got around too much ... Ask all the publishers to be careful ... Keep an eye on the papers ... Is making it here in New York with an ambitious little middle-class English girl from a well-off banking family who knows a lot of people in advertising ... In Paris, sees a lot of S. ... and thinks he's "charming ..." That sexist! That pretentious creep! Who thinks he's another Joyce!' And so on ..."
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 105.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 526–527.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 404, 426, 467.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 429.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 154.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 396.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 501.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 138.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 407.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 20.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 416.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 531.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 230: "We're in the apartment she stays in now when she's in Paris ... Near the Luxembourg ... Close to where I live ... Very convenient ..."
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 279.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 547.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 227: "She wants me to help her ... Think of 'ideas' for her ... In return she'd use her influence ... And she'd introduce me to culture ... Mozart ... The Magic Flute ... Or rather she'd introduce herself, through me, to the infinity of culture ... Painting ... Literature ..."
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 231: "We laugh ... Military dialogue ... Souped-up Marivaux..."
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 310, 493.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 122, 179.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990. Cite error: The named reference "FOOTNOTESollers1990" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 43.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 12, 227.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 396, 532–534.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 224, 553.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 553.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 215.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 334.
- ^ a b c d Sollers 1990, p. 73.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 380.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 160.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 239, 242.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 412: "We come out of the Frick and walk to the Plaza for a drink... It's the sunny, vibrant New York of high summer ... With the ocean seeming to stand there vertical beyond the light ..." Cite error: The named reference "FOOTNOTESollers1990412" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 251.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 113, 480.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 496.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 5.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 225, 550.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 103.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 362.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 52, 73, 188, 216, 230, 231, 232, 251, 253, 254, 255, 409, 465.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 542.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 365.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. , 273415: "Poor Sartre! Actually, there was a dago side to him ... Nauseous ... Suspect ... Unpoetic ... Not really keen on women ... Not enough ..."
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 185.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 271.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 12, 56, 414, 502.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 291.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 17, 18, 56, 453–461.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 366.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 106.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 52.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 542-543.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 157.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 435.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 505.
- ^ a b Sollers 1990, p. 132.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 216, 234.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 161–162: "What did St. Thomas say? That 'When the end of the world draws near, the sin of lukewarmness will reign ... ' It won't be for some time, then, judging by the murderous passion raging everywhere ... Or is it simply lukewarmness that lies behind these murders? Death at cruising speed? Amid almost universal indifference?"
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 107.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 297.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 310.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 522–524.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 107?, 248.
- ^ Sollers 1990, p. 522.
- ^ Sollers 1990, pp. 245, 494.
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- Sollers, Philippe (1990). Women. Translated by Barbara Bray. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0231065474.
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