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Translated from the Italian. A selection from the original five-volume work, published in Torino by G. Einaudi editore, c2001-c2003. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- On The Novel -- Part 2.1. The Long Duration -- The Novel in Search of Itself: A Historical Morphology -- Epic, Novel -- The Poetry of Mediocrity -- The Experiments of Time: Providence and Realism -- Readings: Prototypes -- Aethiopika (Heliodorus, Third or Fourth Century) -- Maqāmāt (Hamadhānī, Late Tenth Century) -- Lazarillo de Tormes ("Lázaro de Tormes," circa 1553) -- Le Grand Cyrus (Madeleine de Scudéry, 1649-1653) -- Persian Letters (Montesquieu, 1721) -- Waverley (Walter Scott, 1814) -- The Mysteries of Paris (Eugène Sue, 1842-1843) -- The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells, 1898) -- The Kingdom of This World (Alejo Carpentier, 1949) -- Part 2.2. Writing Prose -- Forms of the Supernatural in Narrative -- The Prose of the World -- Excess and History in Hugo's Ninety-three -- Minor Characters -- Toward a Database of Novelistic Topoi -- Part 2.3. Themes, Figures -- The Fiction of Bourgeois Morality and the Paradox of Individualism -- The Death of Lucien de Rubempré -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Social Climber: Upward Mobility in the Novel -- A Businessman in Love -- Readings: Narrating Politics -- Max Havelaar (Multatuli, 1860) -- The Tiger of Malaysia (Emilio Salgari, 1883-1884) -- Ah Q (Lu Hsün, 1921-1922) -- Cement (Fedor Gladkov, 1925) -- A Private Matter (Beppe Fenoglio, 1963) -- Arrow of God (Chinua Achebe, 1964) -- Conversation in the Cathedral (Mario Vargas Llosa, 1969) -- The Aesthetics of Resistance (Peter Weiss, 1975-1981) -- Readings: The Sacrifice of the Heroine -- Aloisa and Melliora (Love in Excess, Eliza Haywood, 1719-1720) -- Natasha and Hélène (War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, 1863-1869) -- Nana (Nana, Émile Zola, 1880) -- Tess (Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy, 1891) -- Elsie (The Dangerous Age, Karin Michaëlis, 1910) -- Part 2.4. Space and Story. Over-writing as Un-writing: Descriptions, World-Making, and Novelistic Time -- The Roads of the Novel -- The Chronotopes of the Sea -- Torn Space: James Joyce's Ulysses -- Readings: The New Metropolis -- Shanghai (Midnight, Mao Dun, 1932) -- Buenos Aires (Adán Buenosayres, Leopoldo Marechal, 1948) -- Lagos (People of the City, Cyprian Ekwensi, 1954) -- Cairo (The Cairo Trilogy, Naguib Mahfouz, 1956-1957) -- Havana (Three Trapped Tigers, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, 1967) -- Bombay (Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie, 1981) -- Istanbul (The Black Book, Orhan Pamuk, 1990) -- Part 2.5. Uncertain Boundaries -- Form and Chance: The German Novella -- Inconceivable History: Storytelling as Hyperphasia and Disavowal -- Innovation: Notes on Nihilism and the Aesthetics of the Novel -- Narrative Literature in the Turing Universe -- Readings: A Century of Experiments -- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke, 1910) -- The Making of Americans (Gertrude Stein, 1925) -- Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf, 1925) -- Macunaíma (Mário de Andrade, 1928) -- Finnegans Wake (James Joyce, 1939) -- Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable (Samuel Beckett, 1951-1953) -- Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar, 1963) -- Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon, 1973) -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Works Cited Index. |
