Edwin Frank: Stranger Than Fiction : Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel. US: Vintage Publishing, 21 Nov 2024. 480 pages.
Prologue: the ellipsis: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground — 3
Part I. Breaking the vessels.
1. The vivisector: H. G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau — 29
2. The abyss: André Gide’s The Immoralist — 46
3. Shutter time: Alfred Kubin’s The Other Side and
Franz Kafka’s Amerika — 62
4. Youth and age: Colette’s Claudine at School and
Rudyard Kipling’s Kim — 79
5. The American sentence: Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives — 101
6. A world of literature: Machado de Assis’s The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas and
Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro — 116
7. Hippe’s pencil: Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain — 142
8. What did you do in the war? Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time and
James Joyce’s Ulysses — 160
Part II. A scattering of sparks.
9. For there she was: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway — 191
10. Nick stands up: Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time — 211
11. Critic as creator: Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities — 226
12. The human and the inhuman: Italo Svevo’s Confessions of Zeno and
Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight — 241
13. The exception: D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers and
The Rainbow — 255
14. The end: Hans Erich Nossack’s The End and
Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate — 280
Part III. The withdrawal.
15. Don’t cry: Anna Banti’s Artemisia and
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart — 301
16. Reflections on damaged life: Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita and
Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps — 317
17. The whole story of America: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man — 334
18. Boom: Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude — 351
19. Into the abyss: Georges Perec’s Life a User’s Manual — 363
20. Being historical: Marguerite Yourcenar’s Memoirs of Hadrian and
Elsa Morante’s History — 377
21. The enigma of arrival: V. S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival — 394
21TH CENTURY NOVEL
Epilogue: W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz — 411
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