“... though he were inexorably being subsumed by dreams and shadows. The French translator and scholar Pierre Hourcade, who visited Lisbon in 1933, remembered leaving a café with Pessoa, and walking with him for a few blocks. Hourcade had, Richard Zenith writes, ‘this uncanny sensation: that the poet, as soon as he disappeared around the corner of a downtown ...”

“... areas. He may end up obliterating the Virgin’s face. This is very much the territory of ‘Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote’, though the ideas can’t be expected to resonate in the clogged ducts of The Recognitions as they do in the vast interior spaces of Borges’s story (which is unlikely to have influenced Gaddis, since it wasn’t ...”

“... is fascinated by codes of behaviour and power relations; I find it hard to imagine Simenon reading Pierre Bourdieu, but if he did he would have found a lot to agree with. Another of Simenon’s unexpected intellectual affinities is with Raymond Queneau, who in the course of his studies spent a lot of time reflecting on the difference between spoken and written ...”

“... Angeles presumably on the proceeds of her two bestsellers. After the segment we have tea in the Pierre and talk about Leeds, and I walk down the corridor where 40 years ago Dudley Moore and I saw Stravinsky. I avoid downtown and notice how, in the car to the airport, I don’t look back to take in the view of the towers of Manhattan. It’s something I’d ...”

“... own account, was that she’d stopped working. She was now married to a Swiss photographer, Jean-Pierre Baillod, and stayed at home to care for their two young children, Carine and Julien. (Baillod and the children, including Zsuzsanna, spoke only French – another reason for Kristóf to adopt the language as her own.) She was a devoted mother but as a ...”

“... Iran and Lebanon: a measure of the contempt in which they are held.The French historian Jean-Pierre Filiu visited Gaza with Médecins sans Frontières during the ceasefire, and has published a powerful account of his trip.1 ‘Even though I have been in a number of war zones in the past, from Ukraine to Afghanistan, via Syria, Iraq and Somalia,’ he ...”

“... what he called his ‘weakness’, his ‘blockages’. (Demy’s biographer, Jean-Pierre Berthomé, has intimated that the family has omitted certain films from restoration; others have suggested Varda’s films about Demy leave out the sexual strangeness of his work.) A line from a piece Varda wrote for Cahiers shortly after Demy’s death ...”

“... do no harm.) He did not alert the haemophiliac community to this decision. His subordinate, Jean-Pierre Allain, a man who had spent his life treating haemophiliacs, did not go public with his complaints against his boss and neither was willing to take responsibility for the financial consequences of tossing the old product. They asked the minister to mandate ...”

“... atheistical, and saying how silly it all is, the only productive way is the one the psychologist Pierre Janet recommended, early in the 20th century: first, you must respect the beliefs that underlie the phenomena. Both Gemma and Thérèse believed suffering had an effect that was not limited in time or space. They could, just for a while, share the pain of ...”

“... be attained or even struggled after. Like so much else in life it was bestowed, though not on me. Pierre Loti said ‘I am not my type’ and so it was with me. The predicament, if it is a predicament, is not unusual and those who find themselves in it can console themselves that they are luckier in the long run than those who find their reflection a cause ...”

“... with Warren Beatty – ‘I guess I did. Probably once.’ She met the Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau at a London premiere and nearly married him after a whirlwind romance, though she says less about him than about his preferred midnight snack, ‘a glass of milk and a few Mallomars. He offered the cookies to me, and I took one, but I pulled off ...”

“... Here is an incomplete log of Beatles sightings I kept as 2020 tiptoed hesitantly into 2021: in a Pierre Cardin obituary; in a Gerry Marsden obituary; in a documentary about J.D. Salinger; in one of Netflix’s numberless true crime productions (viz, a reconstructed FBI interview with Charles Manson, peddling his ‘blame it on the Beatles’ spiel); a ...”

“... In September​ 2013, the Halle Saint Pierre gallery in Montmartre mounted an exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversary of the British magazine Raw Vision. The magazine, like the gallery, is devoted to Art Brut, a movement that insists on the value of art made by self-taught artists, including patients in psychiatric hospitals ...”

“... voice of the scholars and autodidacts who’ve written the imaginary books, Lem’s Kinbotes and Pierre Menards. Lem Four is a kind of magic act.Lem Five​ ? He’s another major figure: prolific essayist, futurist and literary critic. A supreme armchair anythingist, he shows no hesitation in dismissing Hegel (‘a complete idiot’), Gravity’s Rainbow ...”

“... to. Phaidon continues to bring over some of the important Continental works into English, such as Pierre-Louis Mathieu’s Gustave Moreau, which it published in 1977. And there are even a few such efforts still being initiated within this country. But the old coherent picture has broken up, as it probably had to do, since it was held together by external ...”