Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. I. The Confessional Imagination 1
6. II. Life as Writing 25
7. III. Self-Will 43
8. IV. Autobiographical Beginnings 80
9. V. Domestic Fictions 105
10. Vi. Hesse's Marriage of Heaven and Hell 130
11. VII. Ticino Legends of Saints and Sinners 159
12. VIII. Live(D) Fantasies 188
13. IX. Home to the Un-Becoming Self 238
14. Epilogue: Who is he? 311
15. Notes 315
16. Index 337