Derrida, Jacques, 188

desire, 5, 9, 22, 120–121, 127–148, 152–153, 156

dogs, 22–23, 56, 73, 88, 106, 121, 134, 141, 164, 188–192

Doody, Margaret Ann, 173

Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 3, 52–53, 64, 124, 194–195

Crime and Punishment, 52

Demons, 52–53

Possessed, 186

Douthwaite, John, 2, 93, 97, 140

Durrant, Sam, 182

Dutch (language), 103–104, 118

Dyirbal (language), 17, 119

Eliot, George, 173

Eliot, T. S., 17, 20, 111

England, 15, 17–18

English (language), 15, 17, 74, 82, 99–102, 106–109, 115–118, 169, 191, 196

etymology, 100, 104, 108–109, 129

family, 16–17, 100–101, 151–170

fatherhood, 157, 168

female protagonists, 49

first-person narrative, 34–36, 40–44, 47–52, 54, 59, 62–63, 79–80, 94–95, 97, 160–162, 183–184

Ford, Ford Madox, 17–18, 86–87, 92, 190

free indirect style, 62

freedom, 10, 27, 30, 47–49

French (language), 103–104, 120, 124, 142

German (language), 103–104, 118

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 20, 121

Gordimer, Nadine, 3, 7–9, 11, 13, 45, 121–122

Graham, Lucy, 131, 134, 188–189

Hacking, Ian, 190

Hardy, Thomas

Jude the Obscure, 121

Harrison, James, 41, 94

Harvey, Melinda, 130–132, 140

Head, Dominic, 1, 3, 14, 51–52, 77

Herbert, Zbigniew, 18, 78

Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 191

Holocaust, 104

Hopkins, Gerald Manley, 118–119

Hottentots. See Khoikhoi people

Howe, Patricia, 173

IBM, 19, 166

imagery, 5, 12, 97–100, 182

influences, 2, 121–122

interviews, 4, 11–13, 30, 38, 43, 49, 53, 59–60, 66–69, 83, 102

irony, 19, 25, 27, 35, 54–55, 73–74, 77–78, 82, 93, 115, 119, 124–125, 163, 195

isolation, 42–43, 82

Italian (language), 104, 191

Janes, Regina, 73–74, 89

Jesus Christ, 156, 188–189

Joyce, James, 27, 118

Kafka, Franz, 3, 24, 118, 121, 188

Kellman, Stephen G., 91, 100

Kermode, Frank, 171–174

Khoikhoi people (‘Hottentots’), 37–38, 79–80

Kite, B., 175

Kundera, Milan, 30

Kurosawa, Akira, 120