Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Novel and the Reader 6
6. 2. Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde 44
7. 3. Cervantes: Don Quixote 74
8. 4. Lafayette: La Princesse de Clèves 108
9. 5. Sterne: Tristram Shandy 136
10. 6. Kafka: The Trial 160
11. 7. Proust: Remembrance of Things Past 189
12. 8. Sartre: Nausea 226
13. 9. Joyce and Robbe-Grillet 256
14. 10. The Novel as Ritual: Defoe's Crusoe and Dostoevski's Idiot 300
15. Books Cited 324
16. Index 337