Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Murder and the Utopian Moment 1
5. PART I: PROBLEMS AND PRECURSORS
6. One. I Wear Not Motley in My Brain: Slaves, Fools, and Abject Heroes 13
7. Two. O Totiens Servus: Horace, Juvenal, and the Classical Saturnalia 34
8. Part II: THE ABJECT HERO EMERGES
9. Three. Oui, Monsieur le Philosophe: Diderot’s Le Neveu de Rameau 59
10. PART III: THE POETICS OF RESSENTIMENT
11. Four. Lacerations: The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky 87
12. Five. L’Apocalypse à Crédit: Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s War Trilogy 121
13. Six. These Children That Come at You with Knives: Charles Manson and the Modern Saturnalia 157
14. Notes 185
15. Index 235