Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Prologue 1
4. PART I. The Corrective Will
5. CHAPTER 1. Death and Literary Authority: Marcel Proust and Melanie Klein 7
6. CHAPTER 2. Erotic Assumptions: Narcissism and Sublimation in Freud 29
7. CHAPTER 3. Boundaries of Time and Being: Benjamin, Baudelaire, Nietzsche 47
8. CHAPTER 4. Literature and History: Malraux and Bataille 102
9. PART II. Encyclopedic Fictions
10. CHAPTER 5. Flaubertian Rhythms of Knowledge 127
11. CHAPTER 6. Incomparable America 136
12. CHAPTER 7. Against Ulysses 155
13. CHAPTER 8. Pynchon, Paranoia, and Literature 179
14. Epilogue 201
15. Notes 211
16. Index 231