User:DeRossitt/List of cultural references in Philippe Sollers' Women

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 * Nineteen Eighty-Four

A

 * Sentimental Education, novel by Gustave Flaubert
 * Alice in Wonderland, book by Lewis Carroll
 * St. Ambrose, 4th century Doctor of the Church and Roman governor.
 * Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director.
 * Louis Aragon, French poet and leading Surrealist.
 * Armandine (first French test tube baby)
 * The Assumption by Bernini

B

 * Bach's Cantata No. 6
 * Monument to Balzac, statue by Rodin in Paris.
 * Barcelona
 * Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), French poet.
 * Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986), French writer and feminist.
 * Saul Bellow
 * Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), Italian sculptor and architect.
 * Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers), a fountain in the Piazza Navona in Rome.
 * Bethlehem
 * Black Spring, novel by Henry Miller
 * Black Virgin
 * Bois de Boulogne, a park in Paris
 * Book of Revelation
 * Bordeaux Chronicles
 * Bjorn Borg, a Swedish former world No. 1 tennis player, whom Will considers a cautionary example.
 * Charles Borromeo
 * Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
 * Boulevard Saint-Michel
 * Bouvard and Pecuchet, novel by Flaubert
 * Charles Bovary
 * Emma Bovary
 * Leonid Brezhnev
 * Buddha
 * Charles Bukowski, American novelist
 * Anthony Burgess, British novelist
 * William S. Burroughs, American novelist
 * Statue of Lord Byron in the Villa Borghese gardens

C

 * Caffe Reggio, café in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan, which Will and Deb used to frequent in their student days.
 * John Cage
 * Calypso
 * Louis Ferdinand Céline
 * Cervantes
 * Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, St. Peter's Basilica
 * François-René de Chateaubriand (statue)
 * François-René de Chateaubriand
 * Christianity
 * Christ
 * Circe
 * Cleopatra
 * Confucius
 * Cosi Fan Tutti
 * Cote d'Azur
 * Council of Trent
 * The Crack-Up

D

 * Dandyism
 * Hotel Danieli
 * Dante Alighieri
 * Lorenzo Da Ponte
 * David
 * Lorenzo Da Ponte
 * Joseph de Maistre
 * Dead Sea Scrolls
 * Detective novels
 * Diderot 241
 * Dionysus
 * Don Giovanni, opera by Mozart
 * Fyodor Dostoevsky

E

 * Easthampton
 * El Greco
 * Epicurus
 * Erebus

F

 * William Faulkner
 * Kathleen Ferrier
 * F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * Caffè Florian
 * James George Frazer
 * Sigmund Freud
 * Frick Collection

G

 * Giudecca
 * Goethe
 * Goethe Statue at the Villa Borghese gardens
 * Grand Canal
 * Great Gatsby
 * Greenwich Village

H

 * Haifa	435
 * Halley's Comet
 * Harpsichord
 * Joseph Haydn
 * Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
 * Ernest Hemingway
 * Billie Holliday
 * Hotel Danieli,
 * Hotel Raphael in Rome
 * Hyde Park (London)

I

 * Île de Ré
 * In the Realm of the Senses
 * Isaac

J

 * Jericho
 * John Paul II, Pope
 * James Joyce
 * Judith
 * Juliette novel by Sade

K

 * Franz Kafka
 * King David Hotel
 * Willem de Kooning
 * Emil Kraepelin

L

 * Wanda Landowska
 * Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
 * Vie de Rancé by François-René de Chateaubriand
 * Lingbao
 * Lod Airport
 * Louis XIV
 * The Louvre
 * The Luna Hotel
 * Luxembourg Gardens

M

 * Macbeth
 * Niccolo Machiavelli
 * Madame Bovary
 * Madonna del Rosario
 * The Magic Flute
 * Norman Mailer
 * Manichaeism
 * Pierre de Marivaux
 * Gabriel García Márquez
 * John McEnroe
 * Herman Melville
 * Jules Michelet's Renaissance and Reformation
 * Milan Cathedral
 * Yukio Mishima
 * moliere 340
 * Michel de Montaigne
 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * Museum of Modern Art

N

 * Nessus (mythology)
 * Nobel Prize sperm bank
 * Notre Dame Cathedral

O

 * Flannery O'Connor
 * Oedipus 326
 * One Fifth, restaurant in New York City https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/15/arts/diner-s-journal.html

P

 * Pantheon (Paris)
 * Pantheon (Rome)
 * Parc de la Ciutadella
 * Blaise Pascal
 * Pazzi Chapel
 * Piazza del Duomo
 * Piazza Navona
 * Pablo Picasso
 * Plaza Hotel
 * The Polish Rider
 * Pope Pius VI
 * Ezra Pound
 * Marcel Proust
 * Pylon (novel)

Q

 * Queen of Spain and Scarlatti
 * Qumran

R

 * Rape of Proserpine
 * Arthur Rimbaud
 * Hôtel Ritz Paris
 * Rosemary's Baby, film directed by Roman Polanski
 * Philip Roth
 * Jean-Jacques Rousseau
 * Zuzana Ruzickova

S

 * Marquis de Sade
 * Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon
 * J. D. Salinger
 * Santa Maria della Salute
 * Santa Croce, Florence
 * The Giotto frescoes in the side chapel at Basilica de Santa Croce
 * Sarah
 * Jean-Paul Sartre
 * Savannah, Georgia
 * Savini's
 * Alessandro Scarlatti
 * Friedrich Schlegel
 * Gershom Scholem
 * Madame de Sevigne
 * William Shakespeare
 * Side chapel with the Giottos
 * Snark
 * Socrates
 * Sodom
 * Song of Songs
 * Southhampton
 * The Spirit of Christianity - Book by Chateaubriand
 * Spiritual Exercises
 * Santa Maria Maggiore
 * St. Mark's corpse
 * St. Patrick's Cathedral
 * St. Paul
 * St. Peter's
 * St. Thomas
 * Theodore of Amasea
 * Stakhanovism
 * Laurence Sterne
 * William Styron

T

 * Taoism 335-336
 * Tertullian
 * Tiepolo
 * Leo Tolstoy
 * Fontana del Tritone, Rome
 * Leon Trotsky
 * Shroud of Turin
 * Lao Tzu

V

 * Armando Valladares
 * Villa Borghese
 * Antonio Vivaldi

W

 * Otto Weininger
 * The Well-Tempered Clavier
 * The Wild Palms (William Faulkner novel)
 * Women, novel by Charles Bukowski