Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Prologue. The Existence of the Novel in Nabokov’s Diagram 1
4. Introduction. The Point of View of Existence 18
5. Chapter One. Toward an Existentialist Poetics of the Novel 49
6. Chapter Two. The Character of Self-Consciousness: Representing Freedom in the Novel of Marriage 90
7. Chapter Three. Detotalized Totality: Situation, World, and Being-in- the- Novel 151
8. Chapter Four. The Novel and the Unfinished Work of Art 194
9. Conclusion. The Novel and Philosophy 235
10. Notes 245
11. Acknowledgments 285
12. Index 287