Index
Adorno, Theodor
109–111
Alexandrines
97–100, 132–135
Aphorisms
84, 220, 231–232, 249–250
Appropriation
199–202
Balzac, Honoré de
19–21, 166
Barthes, Roland
11n35, 37, 110–111, 144n120
Barnes, Julian
219n10, 235–237
Baron-Cohen, Simon
147, 272–273
Bataille, Georges
144, 282
Baudelaire, Charles
19, 33, 39, 66–70, 105, 122, 134n80, 139, 164, 166, 276–277
Beigbeder, Frédéric
14n41, 21, 188, 201, 254–255, 264
Bellanger, Aurélien
98, 100n172, 259
Berardi, Franco ‘Bifo’
108–109, 271
Breton, André
4–5
Brexit
69
Bulteau, Michel
48, 60–61
Buñuel, Luis
144
Camus, Albert
L’Étranger (1942)
19, 166
Camus, Renaud
Le Grand remplacement (2017)
260–261
Chandler, Raymond
179
Charlie Hebdo
2, 212–214, 216, 260, 266
Christie, Agatha
169, 171, 194
The Hollow (1946)
185–186
Cohen, Jean
36–41, 52, 56, 77–78, 85–86, 107, 119–120, 170–172
Contemporary visual art
Combas, Robert
6
Hirst, Damien
147, 255n192
Koons, Jeff
147, 206, 253
Palais du Tokyo, Paris
6, 167, 209
Ruff, Thomas
253
Touyard, Gilles
6
Ungerer, Tomi
200–201, 246, 253
Viennese Actionists
228
Wiame, Sarah
6
Crary, Jonathan
121
Crime fiction
169–198
Néo-polar
183–184, 186–198
Curtis, Jean-Louis
201, 250
Dantec, Maurice
261
Darrieussecq, Marie
20, 21n77, 282–283
Death
54–55, 66–68, 74, 112–113, 122–123, 134, 142, 149–150, 157
Debord, Guy
144
Denis, Claire
280
Despentes, Virginie
24n92, 277, 282
Disch, Thomas M.
167
‘Dog whistles’
260–266
Dumont, Bruno
279, 281–282
Ellis, Bret Easton
18, 278–9
European Union
69, 130
Falk, Peter
169
Film
6
‘New French Extremity’ films
279–282
Finkielkraut, Alain
261–265
Flaubert, Gustave
201, 225
L’Éducation sentimentale (1869)
154, 273
Ford, Jeffrey
168, 197
Foekinos, David
259
Freud, Sigmund
‘Sentiment océanique’
53–56, 75–80, 101–105
Gary, Roman (Émile Ajar)
18, 201
Genette, Gérard
37, 215, 217–218
Goldsmith, Kenneth
205, 209, 276
Gourmont, Remy de
44–46, 49–50
Gran, Iegor
20
Grandrieux, Philippe
279
Highsmith, Patricia
169
Houellebecq, Michel
Aeroplane images
75–76, 123–128
Bathos
87–95
Critical reception of
12–32
Decomposition imagery
67–70, 136–140
Depression
33, 67, 70, 80–81, 100, 101, 221, 223, 271
Disappearance of
169
Dream sequences
121–123
Essays
‘Approches du désarroi’
58, 116, 207, 270, 272, 274, 276
‘Après les attentats à Paris quelle démocratie pour la France?’
266–267
‘Donald Trump is a good president’
267
H.P. Lovecraft: Contre le monde, contre la vie
46–48, 61–63, 200
‘Le Haut langage’
36–37
‘Renoncer à l’intelligence’
44–46, 49–50, 271
‘Rester vivant’
40–41, 49–52, 65, 149
Eye imagery
144–148
Fiction
Extension du domaine de la lutte
80–105, 145, 149, 173, 175, 177–178, 182–183, 203–204, 218–223
La Carte et le territoire
116, 124, 139, 142–143, 149, 176, 186–198, 200, 247–257
Lanzarote
179–180
La Possibilité d’une île
117, 122, 124–125, 128–129, 136–140, 146–147, 149, 155–156, 159, 160–165, 167, 177, 181, 183, 200–201, 238–247
Les Particules élémentaires
111–116, 121–123, 125–126, 128, 131, 133–135, 141–143, 145–146, 149, 150–153, 158–159, 167, 173–176, 181, 183, 200, 204, 223–230
Plateforme
132, 135, 146, 157, 167, 173, 176, 180, 185–186, 230–238
Sérotonine
118–119, 130, 167, 177, 181, 184, 269
Soumission
132–133, 160, 200, 257–267
Intertextuality
17–19, 28–32, 166–168, 210
Juxtaposition
84–87
La Nouvelle Revue de Paris
4, 46, 49, 60–80, 104, 271
Lire magazine
213, 235n99, 237–238
Literary style (neutrality/‘flatness’ of)
14–17, 192–194
Literary theory, engagement with
33–58
Manchette, Jean-Patrick
184
Media image
12–14, 213–217, 252–57
Motorways and driving
128–130
Narrative closure in
194–197
Narrative perspective in
212–267
Pedophilia, in novels
242–247
Perpendiculaire
6, 29–30, 31, 174, 282
Plagiarism
200
Poetry
‘Apaisement’
64, 74, 75
‘Dernier temps’
73, 139
Échange poésie group
59–60
‘Il est vingt et une heures’
77
Jungle, contributions to
60, 123, 200
Karamazov
59–60
‘La Fêlure’
70
La Poursuite du bonheur
104–105
‘La Route’
105
Le Sens du combat
68
‘Passage’
78–79
Poetic technique
15–16, 59–80
Poetry and emotion
36–43, 52–56
Poetry as resistance
41, 107–111
Renaissance
145
‘Variation 49’
72, 65, 75–76
‘Vocation Religieuse’
76–77
Self-harm
64, 71–72, 140
Semicolons
92–95
‘Sentiment océanique’
53–56, 75–80, 101–105
Sex scenes
24–28, 132
Suicide as theme
33, 65, 70–74, 103, 112, 115, 134, 140–147, 150, 160, 173, 221, 255–256
Worms
67–70, 141–144
Vomit
90–92
Information management
203–206
Information overload
208
Ionesco, Eugène
201
Islam, comments about
1–2, 31–32, 234–238, 241, 257–267
Jameson, Fredric
10, 271
Jakobson, Roman
119
Jonquet, Thierry
188–192
Moloch (1998)
191
Mygale (1984)
189–190, 194
Kaprièlian, Nelly
275
Lançon, Philippe
Le Lambeau (2018)
213
Laugier, Pascal
281
Lautréamont, Comte de. (Isidore Ducasse)
17–18, 201, 282
Lévy, Bernard-Henri
5–6, 138, 254
Lovecraft, Howard Phillips
46–48, 61–63, 77–79, 200
Maris, Bernard
2, 202, 213
Matrix Revolutions (2003)
207
Muray, Philippe
261
Music
116–119
Bisbal, David
117–118
Burgalat, Bertrand
6
Dassin, Joe
116–117
Deep Purple
118–119
Pop, Iggy
6
Sabina, Joaquin
118
Vannier, Jean-Claude
6
Young, Neil
149
Nietzsche, Friedrich
29
Noé, Gaspar
279
Nolot, Jacques
280
Nouveau roman
11, 272
Perec, Georges
201
Plath, Sylvia
175
Poe, Edgar Allan
175
Postproduction
209–210
Probyn, Elspeth
41
Proust, Marcel
19
Reading
2–3, 137–138, 168, 248, 283
Robinson, Jenefer
41–43, 215–216, 273
Romance fiction
198
Rushdie, Salman
1, 241–242, 257
Schopenhauer, Arthur
29
Science Fiction
40, 121, 197–198
Simak, Clifford D.
18, 197, 201
Simenon, Georges
192
Trump, Donald
267
Valls, Manuel
2, 266
De Van, Marina
279–281
Vilar, Jean-François
184
Weitzmann, Marc
201
Zemmour, Éric
264–265, 275
Zola, Émile
19–20, 101n178, 166, 168, 201