Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS vi
4. PRELUDE vii
5. 1. The Origins of Truffaut’s Jules and Jim 1
6. 2. The New Wave and Adaptation 9
7. 3. The Prototype for Jim: Henri-Pierre Roché 15
8. 4. New York Interlude 21
9. 5. The Don Juan Books 27
10. 6. The Prototype for Jules: Franz Hessel and Flânerie 37
11. 7. Hessel as Novelist 47
12. 8. Hessel’s Parisian Romance 53
13. 9. The Prototype for Catherine: Helen Grund Hessel 57
14. 10. L’Amour Livresque 63
15. 11. The Polyphonic Project 69
16. 12. Jules and Jim: The Novel 75
17. 13. From Novel to Film 81
18. 14. Disarming the Spectator 91
19. 15. Polyphonic Eroticism 113
20. 16. Sexperimental Writing: The Diaries 117
21. 17. Sexuality/Textuality 125
22. 18. The Gendered Politics of Flânerie 133
23. 19. Comparative Écriture 137
24. 20. Two English Girls: The Novel 151
25. 21. Two English Girls: The Film 177
26. 22. The (Various) Men Who Loved (Various) Women 195
27. POSTLUDE 209
28. TIME LINE 211
29. NOTES 215
30. INDEX 229
31. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 241