Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Translator’s Note ix
4. Introduction: Truth and Literature 1
5. ONE: A Theory of Narrative 20
6. TWO: The Origin of the Novel 60
7. THREE: The Novel and the Literature of the Ancien Régime 95
8. FOUR: The Book of Particular Life 138
9. FIVE: The Birth of the Modern Novel 180
10. SIX: The Nineteenth- Century Paradigm 230
11. SEVEN: The Transition to Modernism 272
12. EIGHT: On Contemporary Fiction 333
13. Conclusion: A Theory of the Novel 343
14. Acknowledgments 379
15. Index 381