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Index
Cover
Landing Page
Title Page
Epigraph
Contents
I: The Painter’s Brutal Gesture: On Francis Bacon
II: Blacklists, or Divertimento in Homage to Anatole France
The Comical Absence of the Comical (Dostoyevsky: The Idiot)
Death and the Fuss (Louis-Ferdinand Céline: From Castle to Castle)
Love in Accelerating History (Philip Roth: The Professor of Desire)
The Secret of the Ages of Life (Gudbergur Bergsson: The Swan)
The Idyll, the Daughter of Horror (Marek Bieńczyk: Tworki)
The Debacle of Memories (Juan Goytisolo: The Curtain Falls)
The Novel and Procreation (Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude)
III: The Dream of Total Heritage
IV: The Dream of Total Heritage
A Dialogue on Rabelais and the Misomusists
The Dream of Total Heritage in Beethoven
The Arch-Novel: An Open Letter for the Birthday of Carlos Fuentes
The Total Rejection of Heritage, or Iannis Xenakis (a text published in 1980, with two interventions from 2008)
V: Beautiful Like a Multiple Encounter
VI: Elsewhere
Exile as Liberation According to Vera Linhartova
The Untouchable Solitude of a Foreigner (Oscar Milosz)
Enmity and Friendship
Faithful to Rabelais and to the Surrealists Who Delved into Dreams
On the Two Great Springs, and on the Škvoreckýs
From Beneath You’ll Breathe the Roses (The Last Visit with Ernest Breleur)
VII: My First Love
The Long Race of a One-Legged Runner
The Most Nostalgic Opera
VIII: Forgetting Schoenberg
No Celebration (a text published in 1995 in the Frankfurter Rundschau together with other pieces celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the birth of cinema)
What Will Be Left of You, Bertolt?
Forgetting Schoenberg
IX: The Skin: Malaparte’s Arch-Novel
About the Autthor
Also by the Author
Copyright
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