Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Disenchanting the World: A Reflection on the Common Ground Between the Novel Form and the Essay 5
5. An Irreconcilable Discrepancy: Sketching a Theory of the Novel-essay 19
6. The Totality that Does not Die: On the early Twentieth-century Novel-essay and two Rearticulations of Bourgeois Culture 33
7. Thinking and Narrating Eroticism in Italy in the Sixties 45
8. Between the “Roman-Essay” and the “Essay-Roman”: Jean Améry’s Lefeu oder Der Abbruch and W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz 61
9. On the Relationship between Novel-essay and Science-fiction 77
10. The Essayification of Narrative Forms in the 21st Century: a Comparative Study 101
11. The Trunk and the Branches 113
12. About the Authors 119
13. Index of Persons 121
14. Index of Subjects 125