Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword: The Courage of Words xi
4. Preface: Apt Words xiii
5. A
6. Adumbrated 1
7. Aletherature 2
8. Amen 4
9. Anonymity 4
10. Autofiction 5
11. Available 7
12. Awareness of Banality 8
13. B
14. Balagan 10
15. The Banana Republic of Letters 11
16. Beauty 12
17. Bildungsroman 13
18. Breton 14
19. Bricoleur 15
20. C
21. Catin 17
22. Chaff 18
23. Cinderella 19
24. Creature 23
25. Cunnilingus 24
26. D
27. Disappointment 26
28. Discipline 28
29. Dream 29
30. E
31. Échapée 31
32. Evolution 32
33. F
34. Faire 34
35. Fille 35
36. Furniture 37
37. H
38. Happiness 38
39. Harmony and Reconciliation 40
40. Hedonism 42
41. Heretic 43
42. Honesty 45
43. I
44. “I” 46
45. Identities 47
46. Wise Imagination 49
47. India 49
48. Insomnia 50
49. Island 53
50. L
51. To Last 55
52. Laughter 56
53. Lies 58
54. Loyalty 63
55. M
56. Mariquita 65
57. The Meaning of a Word 67
58. The Strolling Mirror 67
59. N
60. No 70
61. No Why 73
62. Nomad 74
63. The Novel as Web 76
64. Novel/Life 77
65. What Is the Novel? 78
66. Novice 80
67. P
68. Paralipomena 81
69. Pathos 83
70. Phantom 84
71. Physical 85
72. Plague 87
73. (The) Present 87
74. R
75. “Real” 90
76. The Real 91
77. (Holy) Russia 93
78. S
79. A Successful Sentence 95
80. Shadow 96
81. Signed D.C. 98
82. Silence 99
83. The Depopulated Skies 100
84. Suffering 102
85. T
86. Terroir 104
87. U
88. Un- 106
89. Unknowable 108
90. The Unreal 109
91. W
92. Waiting/Attention 112
93. Woman 113
94. The Word Word 114
95. “Words, Words, Words” 116
96. Work 117
97. Y
98. Yusuf 120
99. Z
100. Zorby 122
101. Contributors 125
102. Index 143
103. Backmatter 147