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abortion

Abraham Mosque (Hebron)

African-Americans

African National Congress (ANC)

Africans, female circumcision among, immigration to Europe of, Naipaul’s attitude toward

Afrikaners

Aguirre, Jesús

Ahmend, Luna

Alexander the Great

Alexandria Quartet (Durrell)

Algeria

Allegory of Faith (Vermeer)

America, conquest and colonization of

Anderson Kohatsu, Major Ricardo

Angelou, Maya

anti-Semitism

apartheid

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Arabs, see also Palestinians

Arafat, Yasir

Arciniegas, Germán

Argentina, economic development in, immigration to

Arguedas, José María

Armenians

Aron, Raymond

Artaud, Antonin

Atlantic Monthly, The

Augustine, Saint

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (Vargas Llosa)

Auschwitz

Australia

Axworthy, Lloyd

Azhar University

 

Bakhtin, Mikhail

Balaguer, Joaquín

Balzac, Honoré de

Bangladesh

Bank of England

Banzer, Hugo

Bari Hermosa, General Nicolás de

Barker, Eileen

Barral, Carlos

Barreto, Mariela

Barrios Altos, massacre at

Barthes, Roland

Bartra, Roger

Bashō

Bataille, Georges

Bathers at Asnières (Seurat)

Batista, Fulgencio

Baudelaire, Charles

Baudrillard, Jean

Beauvoir, Simone de

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Belgium

Bend in the River, A (Naipaul)

Benjamin, Walter

Berlanga, Luis García

Berlin, Isaiah

Berlin Wall, fall of

Berlusconi, Silvio

Besançon, Alain

Betancourt, Rómulo

Beyond Culture (Trilling)

Bibliothèque Nationale

birth control

“Black Legend”

Blair, Tony

Blanco (Paz)

Bocángel, Gabriel

Bocuse, Paul

Bolívar, Simón

Bolivia

Bolnes, Catharina

Bongiovanni, Gerardo

Booker McConnell Prize

Borges, Jorge Luis

Bosch, Pere

Botha, P. W.

Brasillach, Robert

Brazil

Brecht, Bertolt

Brel, Jacques

Breton, André

Britain, abortion in, economy of, female circumcision in, India and, Industrial Revolution in, invasion of Jamaica by, literary novels in, modern art in, poetry of, privatization in, Society of Authors of, tabloid press in, universities in, welfare state in, in World War II

British Library, Reading Room of

Bucharest University

Buddhism

 

Caldera, Rafael

Calvino, Italo

Cambridge University

Campbell, Naomi

Camus, Albert

Canada, immigration to

Cardoso, Fernando Henrique

Carnaval (Rio de Janeiro)

Carter Foundation

Castro, Fidel

Catholicism, in Brazil, in Mexico, in Spain

Catholic University of Arequipa

Cavafy, Constantine

Ceausescu, Nicolae

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Cernat, Manuela

Cernuda, Luis

Cervantes, Miguel de

Cézanne, Paul

Chapman, Jake and Dinos

Chávez, Hugo

Chávez, José Antonio

Children of Clay (Queneau)

Children of the Mire (Paz)

Chile, economic

development in

Pinochet regime in

China, economic development in, population policy in, United States and

Chomsky, Noam

Chrétien de Troyes

Christian Democratic party, German

Christianity, in Africa, modesty and, secularization and, symbols of, in German public schools, transcendence in, see also Catholicism

Christian Social Union (CSU), German

Christie’s

Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (Vermeer)

church and state, separation of, population policy and

Churchill, Winston

“Circular Ruins, The” (Borges)

circumcision, female

Civil Wars (Enzensberger)

Clarín (newspaper)

Claudel, Paul

Cleopatra

Clinton, Bill

Clinton, Hillary

Cocteau, Jean

Colina Group

Collishaw, Mat

Colombia

Colvin, Marie

Comercio, El (newspaper)

Communists

Mexican, Romanian, South African

Conjunctions and Disjunctions (Paz)

Conrad, Joseph

Constantinescu, Emil

Consumer Society, The (Baudrillard)

Copperfield, David

Corea, Chick

Costa Rica

Craxi, Bettino

Cromwell, Henry

Crucifixions (Delvaux)

Cruise, Tom

Cruz, Juana Inés de la

Cuba, return of Elián González to, Soviet aid to, Zapatistas and

Czech Republic

 

Daily Telegraph, The (newspaper)

Dalí, Salvador

D’Annunzio, Gabriele

Dante

Darío, Rubén

Davies, Ann

Davies, Dennis Russell

Davies, Ron

Dead Sea Scrolls

Debray, Régis

De Chirico, Giorgio

Declaration of the Rights of Man

decolonization

deconstruction

de Gaulle, Charles

de Klerk, F. W.

Deleuze, Gilles

Delgado Parker, Genaro

Delvaux, Paul

de Man, Paul

democracy: future of, literature and, religion and

Democratic Party, U.S.

Denmark

Derrida, Jacques

Diario del artista seriamente enfermo (Gil de Biedma)

Dionysus, cult of

Dole, Bob

Dominican Republic

Don Carlo (Verdi)

Don Quixote (Cervantes)

Drieu La Rochelle, Pierre

Drot, Jean-Marie

Duchamp, Marcel

Durrell, Lawrence

Dutch East India Company

Duvalier family

 

East Germany

Economist, The

Ecuador

Edwards, Jorge

Egypt, female circumcision in, Islamic fundamentalism in

Elizabeth I, Queen of England

Elon, Amos

El Salvador

England, see Britain

Enlightenment

Ensor, James

entertainment, culture of

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

ethics, Weber’s formulation of

Ethiopia

Eton

European Union

euthanasia

 

Family Idiot, The (Sartre)

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Ferrara, Giuliano

Ferraté, Joan

Ferrater, Gabriel

Fidelio (Beethoven)

Finnegans Wake (Joyce)

Fire Within, The (Drieu La Rochelle)

Flaubert, Gustave

Flemish

FLN (National Liberation Front of Algeria)

Foix, Josep Vicenç

Forbes, Steve

Forster, E. M.

Foucauld, Charles de

Foucault, Michel

Fox, Vicente

Fraginals, Manuel Moreno

France, abortion in, Algeria and, arms sales to Mexico by, cultural identity of, extreme right in, immigration to, literary novels in, during World War II

Free Student Association of Munich

French Revolution

Freud, Lucian

Frida (Herrera)

Friedman, Milton

Fuentes, Carlos

Fujimori, Alberto

Furet, François

 

Galeano, Eduardo

Gallimard publishing company

Gambia

Gandhi, Indira

Gandhi, Mohandas K.

García, Alan

García Hortelano, Juanito

García Márquez, Gabriel

García Meza, Luis

Garvey, Marcus

Gaviria, César

Genet, Jean

Germany, abortion in, billionaires in, Church of Scientology in, guest workers in, Nazi, see Nazis; reunification of, separation of church and state in, Weimar

Ghelderode, Michel de

Gide, André

Gil de Biedma, Jaime

Giuliani, Rudolph

globalization

Gobineau, Joseph Arthur, comte de

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Goldmann, Lucien

Goldstein, Baruch

Gombrowicz, Witold

González, Elián

Goossens, Jan

Goya, Francisco de

Goytisolo, José Agustín

Goytisolo, Luis

Grandes Décorations (Monet)

Grand Guignol

Greek Orthodox Church

Greeks, ancient

Greene, Graham

Green Party, German

Gross, John

Guardian, The (newspaper)

Guatemala

Guattari, Félix

Guevara, Che

Guild of Saint Luke

Guillén Vicente, Rafael, see Marcos, Subcomandante

Guimarães Rosa, João

Gulf War

Gumucio, Juan Carlos

Guzmán, Abimael

Gypsies

 

Hadley, Jerry

Haile Selassie

Haiti, economy of, immigrants from

Halimi, Serge

Hamas

Harvard University

Hayek, Friedrich

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Heidegger, Martin

Henschel, Johann Friedrich

Herrera, Hayden

Herzen, Aleksandr

Herzl, Theodor

Himmelfarb, Gertrude

Hindley, Myra

Hindus

Hitler, Adolf

Holdorf, Udo

Holocaust, survivors of

Holy Virgin Mary, The (Ofili)

homosexuality

Honduras

Hong Kong

House for Mr. Biswas, A (Naipaul)

Hubbard, L. Ron

Hugo, Victor

Huizinga, Johan

Human Condition, The (Malraux)

Hungary

Hussein, Saddam

Huston, John

 

identity, cultural

Iliescu, Ion

immigration

Incas

Independent, The (newspaper)

India, population policy in

Indians, Mexican

Industrial Revolution

INFORM

Inquisition

Institute of Contemporary Arts (London)

Internal Revenue Service, U.S.

International Congress of Writers

International Monetary Fund

Iran

Iraq

Ireland, immigrants from

Islam

Islamic Jihad

Israel, ultra-Orthodox Jews in

Italy, abortion in, guest workers in Germany from

Ivcher, Baruch

 

Jamaica

Japan

Jeanson, Francis

Jehovah’s Witnesses

Jerusalem Prize

Jew of Malta, The (Marlowe)

Jews, Nazi persecution of, Palestinians and, ultra-Orthodox

Joan of Arc

Johns Hopkins University

Johnson, Paul

John XXIII, Pope

Jones, Gwyneth

Journal, 1939–1945 (Drieu La Rochelle)

Journey to the Center of the Earth (Verne)

Joyce, James

Juan Carlos, King of Spain

Juanita

Judaism, see Jews

Jurassic Park (film)

 

Kafka, Franz

Kahlo, Frida

Kemp, Jack

Kevorkian, Jack

KGB

Kidman, Nicole

Kim Il Sung

King’s College

Kohl, Helmut

Koran

Kuwait

 

Labastida, Francisco

Labour Party, British

Labyrinth of Solitude, The (Paz)

Lacan, Jacques

La Cantuta University

Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence)

La Grange, Bertrand de

laissez-faire capitalism

Language and Silence (Steiner)

Lanza del Vasto, Joseph Jean

La Rosa, Leonor

Las Casas, Bartolomé de

Leante, César

Le Bon, Gustave

Lenin, V. I.

Le Pen, Jean-Marie

Levantine Greeks

Lévi-Strauss, Claude

Lezama Lima, José

Liberal Imagination, The (Trilling)

Library of Congress

Libya

Life magazine

Likud Party, Israeli

literature: desanctification of

French, decadence of

impact of technology on

as predatory art

London, University of

London School of Economics

Lowry, Malcolm

Lumen publishing company

 

Machiguengas

Madonna

Madrid, Miguel de la

Maeterlinck, Maurice

Mafia

Magritte, René

Mail on Sunday, The (tabloid)

Maistre, Joseph de

Maîtres de l’amour, Les (Apollinaire)

Makerere University

Malaysia

Malfitano, Catherine

Mallarmé, Stéphane

Malraux, André

Mandela, Nelson

Mao Tse-tung

Marcos, Ferdinand

Marcos, Subcomandante

Marcos: La genial impostura (La Grange and Rico)

Marías, Julián

Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso

Marley, Bob

Marlowe, Christopher

Martelaere, Anne-Marie “Tam” de

Martínez, Tomás Eloy

Marx, Karl

Marxism

Marxism-Leninism

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Matta, Roberto da

Mauritshuis (The Hague)

Maurras, Charles

Mbeki, Thabo

Meciar, Vladimír

Melgarejo, Mariano

Melville, Herman

Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare)

Mexico, billionaires in, elections in, illegal immigration into U.S. from

Zapatista uprising in

Michael, King of Romania

Michelet, Jules

Minotaure exhibition

Mises, Ludwig von

Mitterrand, Madame

MNR (National Revolutionary Movement of Bolivia)

Mobutu Sese Seko

Molière

Monde, Le (newspaper)

Monet, Claude

Montero, Rosa

Montesinos, Vladimiro

Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de

Moon, Sun Myung

Mormons

Mort du grand écrivain, La (Raczymow)

Mortier, Gérard

Mosquito Coast, The (Theroux)

multiculturalism

Munch, Edvard

Museum of Modern Art

Muslims, see Islam

Myth of Sisyphus, The (Camus)

 

Naipaul, Vidia S.

Nasrim, Taslima

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs

National Front, French

National Gallery (London)

National Geographic Society

nationalism

National Party, South African

Nazis

Neruda, Pablo

Netanyahu, Benjamin

Netherlands, abortion in, assisted suicide in

News of the World (tabloid)

New Yorker, The

New York Public Library

New York Times, The

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Nigeria

Nomadology (Deleuze and Guattari)

Nono, Luigi

Norris, Frank

Northern Ireland

North Korea

Nouvelle Revue Française, La

 

Ocampo, Victoria

Octopus, The (Norris)

Odría, Manuel Arturo

Off on a Comet (Verne)

Ofili, Chris

On Looking into the Abyss (Himmelfarb)

Order of Things, The (Foucault)

Organization of American States (OAS)

Ortega y Gasset, José

Orwell, George

Oslo Accords

Ottoman Empire

Oxford University

 

pacifism

País, El (newspaper)

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

Palestinians

PAN (National Action Party of Mexico)

Pan Africanist Congress (PAC)

Panama, U.S. invasion of

Paraguay

Parliament, British

Pascal, Blaise

Patriotic Pole, Venezuelan

Pauley, Wilbur

Paulhan, Jean

Paz, Octavio

Paz Estenssoro, Victor

Paz Zamora, Jaime

Pequeña crónica de grandes días (Paz)

Peres, Shimon

Pérez, Carlos Andrés

Pérez Jiménez, Marcos

Perón, Eva

Perón, Juan Domingo

Perot, Ross

Perse, Saint-John

Peru, Congress of, economic development in, Holocaust survivors in, immigrants from, Ministry of Justice of, National Library of, OAS and, pre-Columbian remains found in

Pessoa, Fernando

Philanthropic Ogre, The (Paz)

Philippines

Picasso, Pablo

Pierre Gianadda Foundation

Pinochet, Augusto

Pitanguy, Ivo

Pla, Josep

Planner, Mortimer

Poe, Edgar Allan

Poland, privatization in

Polanyi, Karl

Polay, Víctor

Pomés, Xavier

Poniatowska, Elena

Popper, Karl

population control

Portugal

Posdata (Paz)

postmodernism

poverty, population growth and, religion and, violence and

Prague Circle

PRD (Democratic Revolutionary Party of Mexico)

Prester John

PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party of Mexico)

Primera Plana (weekly)

Princeton University

Protestant Reformation

Proust, Marcel

Publishers Association of Great Britain

Puig, Manuel

 

Queen Mary’s College

Queneau, Raymond

Quevedo, Francisco de

 

Rabelais, François

Rabin, Yitzhak

Racine, Jean

Raczymow, Henri

Rafferty, Kevin

Raimón (Ramón Pelegero)

Rastafarianism

Reagan, Ronald

reggae

Reinhard, Johan

Rembrandt van Rijn

Renga (Paz)

República, La (newspaper)

Republican Party, U.S.

responsibility, ethic of

Revel, Jean-François

Reyes, Alfonso

Riba, Carles

Ribeiro, Darcy

Rico, Maite

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Rimbaud, Arthur

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, The (Brecht and Weill)

Rivera, Diego

Robben Island (South Africa)

Robespierre, Maximilien de

Roman Catholic Church, see Catholicism

Romania

Romans, ancient

Roncalli, Angelo Giuseppe Cardinal, see John XXIII

Rosicrucians

Royal Academy of Arts (London)

Royal College of Art (London)

Royal Museums of Fine Arts (Brussels)

Rubens, Peter Paul

Ruiz, Samuel

Rushdie, Salman

Russell, Bertrand

Russia, arms sales to Mexico by, Communist, see Soviet Union

Rutgers University

 

Saatchi, Charles

Sade, Marquis de

Safire, William

Salazar, Fabián

Salinas, Carlos

Salzburg Festival

Samba Schools

Sánchez de Lozada, Gonzalo

Sandinistas

Santa Evita (Martínez)

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Saudi Arabia

Savater, Fernando

Schiffer, Claudia

Schulz, Werner

Scientology, Church of

sects, religious

Semprún, Jorge

Sensation exhibition

Serbia

Seurat, Georges

Shakespeare, William

Shining Path

Siles Suazo, Hernán

SIN (Peruvian National Intelligence Service)

Singapore

Sir Vidia’s Shadow (Theroux)

Sisulu, Walter

Smirke, Sydney

Smith, Adam

social Darwinism

Solomon, King

Somalia

Somoza, Anastasio

Sorbonne

Soros, George

Sotheby’s

Soustelle, Jacques

South Africa

South Korea

Soviet Union, collapse of

Spain, abortion law in, cultural climate of, democratization and modernization of, Golden Age poetry of, guest workers in Germany from, immigrants in, Jamaica and, Latin American resentment of, National Library of, 0.7% Movement in

Spice Girls

Spielberg, Steven

Spitzner Museum (Brussels)

SS

Stalin, Joseph

Stalinism

Stein, Eduardo

Steiner, George

Steiner, Rudolf

Stellenbosch, University of

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Stone, Oliver

Stroessner, Alfredo

structuralism

Sudan, female circumcision in

suicide, assisted

Sunday on La Grande Jatte, A (Seurat)

Sunday Times

Sunstone (Paz)

surrealism

Sweden

Switzerland, abortion in

System of Objects, The (Baudrillard)

Szyszlo, Fernando de

 

tabloid press

Taiwan

Tambo, Oliver

Tàpies, Antoni

Taylor, A. J. P.

Telefónica of Peru

Tellado, Corín

Temps Modernes, Les (journal)

terrorism

Thailand

Theroux, Paul

Thomas, Hugh

Thomas Aquinas, Saint

Times, The (newspaper), Literary Supplement

Tinguely, Jean

Tocqueville, Alexis de

Toledo, Alejandro

Tomb of the Patriarchs (Hebron)

Topoemas (Paz)

Toscani, Oliviero

To the Finland Station (Wilson)

Touraine, Alain

Touray, Fataumata

Transparency International

Trask, Margaret Elizabeth

Travolta, John

Trilling, Lionel

Trotsky, Leon

Trotskyism

Trujillo, Rafael Leónidas

Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)

Turkey, immigrants from

Tzotil Indians

 

Ukraine

ultimate ends, ethic of

Ulysses (Joyce)

Umkhonto we Siswe

Unamuno, Miguel de

Unification Church

United Fruit Company

United Kingdom, see Britain

United Nations

United States, abortion in, arms sales to Mexico by, assisted suicide in, concentration of wealth in, Elián González in, immigration to, influence of deconstruction in, Israel and, Latin America and, literary novels in, Peru and, postwar intellectual life in, social programs in, universities in, Venezuela and

Uruguay

 

Valéry, Paul

Vallejo, César

van Gogh, Vincent

Velasco Alvarado, General Juan

Venezuela, economy of, immigration to

Venice Biennale

Verdi, Giuseppe

Vermeer, Johannes

Verne, Jules

Verwoerd, Hendrik

Vico, Giambattista

Victoria, Queen of England

Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Vietnam

Villaurrutia, Xavier

Villiers, Philippe de

violence, during Carnaval, terrorist, Zapatista

Voltaire

 

Waigel, Theo

Wailers

Walloons

War and Peace (Tolstoy)

wealth, production of

Weber, Max

Weill, Kurt

Wetter, Friedrich Cardinal

Whitbread Prize

Whitmer, John

Wilde, Oscar

Wilson, Edmund

women: circumcision of, rights, violence against

World Bank

World War I

World War II

Writers’ Union, Romanian

 

Yourcenar, Marguerite

Yugoslavia

 

Zadek, Peter

Zaire

Zapatista Army for National Liberation (EZLN)

Zárate, Miguel

Zedillo, Ernesto

Zen Buddhism

0.7% Movement

Zionism

Zola, Emile

Zygotic Acceleration (Chapman)