Table of Contents
Editor's Introduction xiii
Note on Texts and Translations xviii
Part I Music
1 Song Man: On Lieder 3
2 Mérimée and Bizet: The Adventures of a Myth 10
3 Eugene Onegin: Tatyana's Dream 15
4 Così fan tutte: Eros and Irony 19
5 Is Music Criticism Criticism? 25
6 From Book to Libretto 32
7 Charles Rosen (1927-2012) 41
8 Charles Rosen and the Recovery of Musical Structure 43
9 On Charles Rosen's Critical Entertainments 49
10 Massenet's Manon (performance) 53
11 Verdi's La Traviata (performance) 55
12 Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande (performance) 57
13 Debussy's Letters 59
14 Liszt's Letters 62
15 The Death of Franz Liszt 67
Part II European Culture and Literature from the Middle Ages to 1900
16 Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie: Love, Death and Money in the Pays d'Oc 71
17 Molière's The Miser (performance) 73
18 Les Liaisons dangereuses (film) 75
19 Dumas and Laforgue 77
20 Nerval: Archetypes, Structures and 'Total Criticism' 80
21 Nerval's Aurélia 83
22 The Actress from Nerval to Proust 85
23 Baudelaire's Life 86
24 What is Symbolism? (I) 88
25 What is Symbolism? (II) 89
26 On Venice and Paris 92
27 Mesmerism and the Poetics of Rupture 98
28 Flaubert and an English Governess 100
29 Introduction to Madame Bovary 102
30 Discussing Mallarmé 114
31 Mallarmé: Biography and Translation 116
32 Mallarmé's Letters; Paul Bénichou's Mallarmé 120
33 Jean-Pierre Richard and 'Supersignificance' 124
34 Bertrand Marchal's Edition of Mallarmé 125
35 Mallarmé, Mystery in Literature (translation by Malcolm Bowie) 127
Part III European Culture and Literature After 1900
I Race, Gender and Contemporary French Culture
36 Anti-Semitism and Jewish Identity 135
37 Images of Woman and Ideas of Nation, France 1789-1989 (exhibition) 137
38 Introduction to Judith Butler 139
39 Contemporary French Culture: A Preface 142
II Surrealism and Modern French Poetry
40 Artifice, Obliqueness and Sensuality in Valéry 147
41 Saint-John Perse 148
42 Surrealism: Dreaming and Doing 150
43 Surrealism and the Absurd 153
44 On Breton and Surrealism 155
45 A Breton Bibliography 156
46 Bataille's Fiction 157
47 Denis Hollier on Bataille and Leiris 159
48 Henri Michaux: A Mind in Crisis 168
49 Michaux Criticism 172
50 'Life-imagination' in Six Modern French Writers 173
51 Punsters' Parnassus: The Delectable Pong of Francis Ponge 175
52 René Char 179
53 The Widening Gap between French and English Poetry 181
54 On René Daumal 188
55 On Yves Bonnefoy 190
56 The Dodecasyllabic Hero: Jacques Roubaud on the Alexandrine 193
57 French Poetry 1850-1950 196
58 The Diversity of Post-War French Poetry 198
59 The Idea of 'Movement' in Literature 200
III Proust
60 On Proust Among the Stars 203
61 Proust's Centenary 207
62 Proust Corrected: A Revised Translation 209
63 Proust: The Quality of Awareness; Letters; Translation 213
64 Two Biographies of Proust 219
65 Many Hands Make Proust Work: A New Translation 225
66 Sexually Scenic: Swann in Love (film) 228
67 Death and the Artistic Vocation: Time Regained (film) 230
IV Existentialism and Postcolonialism
68 On Camus 235
69 Critical Guides (Balzac, Camus, Queneau) 237
70 Feeling Close: Sartre's Intimacy (performance) 239
71 Genet's The Balcony (performance) 241
72 Genet's Deathwatch and The Maids (performance) 244
73 Césaire's A Tempest (performance) 246
V Comparative Criticism; Borges; Iris Murdoch
74 On Comparative Criticism 251
75 Reclaiming Poetry 252
76 Borges and the Art of Allusion 255
77 Iris Murdoch's The Book and the Brotherhood 260
Part IV Psychoanalysis and Theory
78 Semiologies 269
79 Freud in France 270
80 Foucault and Barthes 276
81 Modern Literary Theory: Its Place in Teaching 279
82 The Reviewer's Task: D. J. Enright, Gabriel Josipovici and Erich Heller 282
83 Thomas Adam Pepper 291
84 P. N. Furbank 297
85 Barthes on Proust 300
86 Christopher Bollas 306
87 The Fate of Pleasure: An Update 308
Malcolm Bowie: A Select Bibliography, 1970-2013 313
Consolidated Index 323
