(Chapters forthcoming)
(Chapters forthcoming)
Part One: Eight Novels
Chapter 1: The Cheated Muse (Flaubert’s Madame Bovary)
Chapter 2: Gathered from Coincidence (Dostoevsky’s The Adolescent)
Chapter 3: The Mirror of Exile (James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
Chapter 4: With the Current: Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Chapter 5: Oedipa Maas, or The Reader’s Tragedy: Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49
Chapter 6. Some Bearings on Kafka’s Castle
Chapter 7. The Symbolic Mother: Proust’s A la Recherche du Temps Perdu
Chapter 8. The Library Is About to Close: Joyce Carol Oates’ them
Part Two: Six Authorities
Chapter 9. The Biology of Ethics: Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
Chapter 10. The Vocabulary of Mercy: Simone Weil’s "Human Personality"
Chapter 11. The Telling and the Tale
Chapter 12. Encounters with Buber’s Hasidim
Chapter 13. A Reception of Black Elk Speaks
Chapter 14. In King Haggard’s Castle: Peter Beagle’s The Last Unicorn
