Morning, Noon, and Night · Finding the Meaning of Life's Stages Through Books by Weinstein, Arnold -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Dedication Preface Introduction GROWING UP Itinerary: Morning to Noon The Uses of Innocence

William Blake’s Chimney Sweeps Innocence and Growing Up in the Thirty Years’ War: Simplicissimus Growing Up as Huckleberry Finn The Idiot’s Tale: William Faulkner’s Benjy The Little Princess: Marjane Satrapi’s Marjane

The Lessons of Experience

Lazarillo de Tormes: The Hungry Child Picaresque Wisdom: The Swindler Honoré de Balzac’s Père Goriot : A Capitalist Education Charles Dickens’s Pip: Haunted and Homeless Understanding Power: Growing Up as the Invisible Man

Love Falling in Love

William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Abbé Prévost’s Manon Lescaut Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre Marguerite Duras’s The Lover

Love Gone Wrong: The Story of Abuse

Fyodor Dostoevsky Stories of Abuse: In the Margins Wuthering Heights Redux Jane Eyre Redux Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

Familial Sacrifice: Kindermord

Charles Dickens Henrik Ibsen Going Under in Franz Kafka William Faulkner’s Quentin Compson

Systemwide Sacrifice: Children and the Nightmare of History

Art Spiegelman’s Maus Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

The Wild Child

William Faulkner’s Light in August Tarjei Vesaas’s The Ice Palace Toni Morrison’s Sula

Growing All the Way Up

William Faulkner’s Ike McCaslin Alice Walker’s Celie Time’s Paths, Literature’s Paths

GROWING OLD Itinerary: Noon to Night Fathers Undone

William Shakespeare’s King Lear Honoré de Balzac’s Père Goriot The Aging of a Salesman: Willy Loman

Exiting the Stage

Henrik Ibsen’s The Master Builder Eugène Ionesco’s Exit the King

The Old in Love POSTSEXUAL

Rip Van Winkle Charles Dickens August Strindberg William Faulkner

SEXUAL ANXIETY

Othello Tennessee Williams’s Blanche DuBois

UNSANCTIONED LUST

Molière Hamlet Accusing Gertrude Jean Racine’s Phèdre Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice

The Final Harvest THE FINAL HARVEST AS MIRAGE

THE GOOD FIGHT

Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea Philip Roth’s Everyman

LIFE’S PLENITUDE

Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage James Joyce’s Leopold Bloom

Love’s Legacy KEEPING THE HEART ALIVE

Gabriel García Márquez’s Aureliano Ingmar Bergman’s Helena

THE EYES OF LOVE

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 Old Cities, Old People: Sigmund Freud Poetry and Memory: Charles Baudelaire The Optics of Love: Marcel Proust

ENDURING LOVE

J. Bernlef’s Out of Mind Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace

Conclusion Acknowledgments Bibliography Permissions Acknowledgments About the Author