Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 Book

Acknowledgements     vii
Introduction     ix
Italo Svevo     1
Robert Walser     15
Robert Musil, The Confusions of Young Torless     30
Walter Benjamin, the Arcades Project     40
Bruno Schulz     65
Joseph Roth, the stories     79
Sandor Marai     94
Paul Celan and his translators     114
Gunter Grass and the Wilhelm Gustloff     132
W. G. Sebald, After Nature     145
Hugo Claus, poet     155
Graham Greene, Brighton Rock     160
Samuel Beckett, the short fiction     169
Walt Whitman     174
William Faulkner and his biographers     189
Saul Bellow, the early novels     207
Arthur Miller, The Misfits     222
Philip Roth, The Plot Against America     228
Nadine Gordimer     244
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores     257
V. S. Naipaul, Half a Life     272
Notes and References     292