TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
EDITORIAL REMARKS FROM THE GERMAN EDITION
The Essay as Form
On Epic Naivete
The Position of the Narrator
in the Contemporary Novel
On Lyric Poetry and Society
In Memory of Eichendorff
Heine the Wound
Looking Back on Surrealism
Punctuation Marks
The Artist as Deputy
CONTENTS
On the Final Scene of Faust
Reading Balzac
Valery's Deviations
Short Commentaries on Proust
Words from Abroad
Ernst Bloch's Spuren
Extorted Reconciliation:
On Georg Lukacs' Realism in Our Time
Trying to Understand Endgame
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