Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Leaping: Kierkegaard's Fear and trembling.
  • pt. 1. Knowings: "Sapere aude!"
  • the West dares to know. Genealogy of realism: an enlightenment narrative in five stages ; Anatomy of realism: coming to know, from Defoe to Dostoevsky.
  • pt. 2. Unknowing: the work of modernist fiction. Plotting modernism: Freud ; Uncanny space: Flaubert to Beckett ; Unbound time: Proust, Kafka, Faulkner ; Subject and/as other: Kafka, Proust, Faulkner.
  • pt. 3. Beyond knowing: postmodern and postcolonial flights from gravity. Adventures in hyperspace ; Urban nightmare and city dreams: Rilke and Calvino ; Passage and passing: Forster and Rushdie ; Arrest and release: Faulkner, García Márquez, Morrison.
  • Conclusion: Acknowledging
  • modernism's weak messianic power.