narrator, (continued)

, 255, 307–309, 312, 315, 318, 320–321, 329–330, 332, 335, 362, 371

Nicomachean Ethics, 2

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 2, 53, 61, 64, 277, 283n12, 328

O’Brien, Flann, 10, 202, 205, 207, 210–212, 217, 219, 221–235, 236n5, 238n12, 238nn14–15, 241

obligation, 2, 27, 30, 32–33, 37, 40, 49, 270–271, 306, 348–349, 362, 369, 392–395

oriental, 130–132, 137, 140–141

Orpheus, 10, 221, 223, 234

paradox, 24–25, 30–31, 33, 48, 56, 118, 222, 306, 340, 354, 369, 371, 373, 376–378, 380, 384

Pater, Walter, 181, 409, 418

Patočka, Jan, 16–22, 34nn5–6, 44–45, 50, 416

Plato, 8–9, 19–22, 34n7, 35, 57

political, 3, 6, 8, 10, 19, 21–22, 28, 38, 40, 46–47, 49–50, 55–56, 58–59, 74, 79, 126, 131, 208, 244, 248, 250, 258, 261, 263–264, 286, 302nn1–2, 302n4, 307, 346, 349, 352–353, 355, 359, 362, 401, 404, 407–410

politics, 45, 55, 70, 79, 85, 132, 235, 252, 264, 306, 348, 353, 361, 395, 404, 406, 408

Poor Mouth, The, 210, 212, 219, 224

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man A, 181, 218

postmodernism, 202, 222–223, 305, 324–325, 421–422

postcolonial, 78, 125, 128, 146, 223, 303, 345–346, 348–349, 352, 354, 363

Pound, Ezra, 174, 177–178, 186–191, 195nn16–17, 196nn18–22, 199

Prydain Chronicles, 367, 370, 373, 385n2, 386n7

punish, 38, 145n13, 288, 294, 297, 319, 340

punishment, 5, 7, 55, 95, 294, 382

Rabaté, Jean-Michel, 207, 219

reading, 3, 10–12, 17, 22, 32, 42, 48, 55, 73, 110, 115–116, 120, 126, 128, 141–143, 149, 164, 174–175, 177–178, 188–191, 225, 248–249, 252–254, 262–265, 267, 276, 278–281, 305–321, 322n5, 351, 391–411

religion, 4, 19–21, 29, 31–32, 38, 44, 157, 181, 251, 290, 353, 382

responsibility, 1–13, 15–17, 19–26, 28–31, 37–40, 42–51, 53, 55, 57, 60–61, 64, 67, 93, 110, 112, 116, 122, 125, 142–143, 152–156, 168, 174–176, 179, 181, 183, 185, 206, 243, 263–273, 275, 279–280, 283n7, 283n9, 286–288, 290, 296–301, 302n3, 305–310, 312–317, 319–321, 323n11, 323n13, 328, 331–332, 334, 336–341, 342n7, 346–347, 349–350, 353–355, 359–363, 369–381, 383–384, 385n6, 391–393, 396–397, 412nn3–4, 412n6, 416

Road from Coorain, The, 11, 345, 348–349, 353–354, 356, 361, 363