Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable (Samuel Beckett, 1951–1953)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. On The Novel ix
4. 2.1. THE LONG DURATION
5. The Novel in Search of Itself: A Historical Morphology 1
6. Epic, Novel 32
7. The Poetry of Mediocrity 64
8. The Experiments of Time: Providence and Realism 95
9. Readings: Prototypes
10. Aethiopika (Heliodorus, Third or Fourth Century) 129
11. Maqāmāt (Hamadhānī, Late Tenth Century) 138
12. Lazarillo de Tormes (“Lázaro de Tormes,” circa 1553) 146
13. Le Grand Cyrus (Madeleine de Scudéry, 1649–1653) 152
14. Persian Letters (Montesquieu, 1721) 161
15. Waverley (Walter Scott, 1814) 173
16. The Mysteries of Paris (Eugène Sue, 1842–1843) 181
17. The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells, 1898) 189
18. The Kingdom of This World (Alejo Carpentier, 1949) 196
19. 2.2. WRITING PROSE
20. Forms of the Supernatural in Narrative 205
21. The Prose of the World 244
22. Excess and History in Hugo’s Ninety-three 274
23. Minor Characters 295
24. Toward a Database of Novelistic Topoi 324
25. 2.3. THEMES, FIGURES
26. The Fiction of Bourgeois Morality and the Paradox of Individualism 347
27. The Death of Lucien de Rubempré 389
28. A Portrait of the Artist as a Social Climber: Upward Mobility in the Novel 409
29. A Businessman in Love 436
30. Readings: Narrating Politics
31. Max Havelaar (Multatuli, 1860) 447
32. The Tiger of Malaysia (Emilio Salgari, 1883–1884) 463
33. Ah Q (Lu Hsün, 1921–1922) 469
34. Cement (Fedor Gladkov, 1925) 476
35. A Private Matter (Beppe Fenoglio, 1963) 483
36. Arrow of God (Chinua Achebe, 1964) 489
37. Conversation in the Cathedral (Mario Vargas Llosa, 1969) 497
38. The Aesthetics of Resistance (Peter Weiss, 1975–1981) 503
39. Readings: The Sacrifice of the Heroine
40. Aloisa and Melliora (Love in Excess, Eliza Haywood, 1719–1720) 513
41. Natasha and Hélène (War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, 1863–1869) 534
42. Nana (Nana, Émile Zola, 1880) 541
43. (Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy, 1891) 548
44. Elsie (The Dangerous Age, Karin Michaëlis, 1910) 559
45. 2.4. SPACE AND STORY
46. Over-writing as Un-writing: Descriptions, World-Making, and Novelistic Time 569
47. The Roads of the Novel 611
48. The Chronotopes of the Sea 647
49. Torn Space: James Joyce’s Ulysses 667
50. Readings: The New Metropolis
51. Shanghai (Midnight, Mao Dun, 1932) 685
52. Buenos Aires (Adán Buenosayres, Leopoldo Marechal, 1948) 693
53. Lagos (People of the City, Cyprian Ekwensi, 1954) 700
54. Cairo (The Cairo Trilogy, Naguib Mahfouz, 1956–1957) 706
55. Havana (Three Trapped Tigers, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, 1967) 714
56. Bombay (Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie, 1981) 721
57. Istanbul (The Black Book, Orhan Pamuk, 1990) 728
58. 2.5. UNCERTAIN BOUNDARIES
59. Form and Chance: The German Novella 737
60. Inconceivable History: Storytelling as Hyperphasia and Disavowal 777
61. Innovation: Notes on Nihilism and the Aesthetics of the Novel 808
62. Narrative Literature in the Turing Universe 839
63. Readings: A Century of Experiments
64. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke, 1910) 869
65. The Making of Americans (Gertrude Stein, 1925) 880
66. Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf, 1925) 888
67. Macunaíma (Mário de Andrade, 1928) 896
68. Finnegans Wake (James Joyce, 1939) 906
69. Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable (Samuel Beckett, 1951–1953) 912
70. Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar, 1963) 919
71. Gravity’s Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon, 1973) 926
72. Contributors 933
73. Author Index 937
74. Works Cited Index 944