Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. Introduction: What Is Degenerative Realism? 1
5. 1. Demography and Survival in Twenty- First- Century France 32
6. 2. Endarkenment from the Minitel to the Internet 81
7. 3. Real- Time Realism, Part 1: Journalistic Immediacy 121
8. 4. Real- Time Realism, Part 2: Le roman post- pamphlétaire 158
9. Conclusion. Novel as Nation: Forms of Parallel Decay 182
10. NOTES 191
11. BIBLIOGRAPHY 239
12. INDEX 261