The Shadow of Vesuvius

Contents

PART ONE: Aut-

Prologue Darker than Night

1. Roots and Trees

PART TWO: Winter

2. Illusions of Immortality

3. To Be Alive Is to Be Awake

4. Solitary as an Oyster

5. The Gift of Poison

PART THREE: Spring

7. The Shadow of Verona

8. Portrait of a Man

9. The Death of Principle

PART FOUR: Summer

10. The Imitation of Nature

11. A Difficult, Arduous, Fastidious Thing

12. Head, Heart, Womb

13. After the Solstice

PART FIVE: -umn

14. Life in Concrete

15. Depraved Belief

Epilogue Resurrection

List of Illustrations

Select Bibliography

Acknowledgements