The Unresolvable Plot : Reading Contemporary Fiction (Paperback)

Acknowledgements. Part 1: Writing about Contemporary Fiction 1. The Unresolvable Plot 2. The Structures of Solitude: Graham Greene and Gabriel Garcia Marquez Part 2: The Masters of Metafiction 3. Borges: The Old Master 4. Nabakov’s Ardors and Pale Fires 5. Calvino, Beckett, and the Cosmicomical Reader Part 3: Experiment and the Problems of Meaning 6. A Novel, which is a Machine for Generating Interpretations: Umberto Eco and The Name of the Rose 7. Muriel Spark and the Art of the Exclusive 8. Russell Hoban: This Place Called Time Part 4: Continuation and Tradition 9. Iris Murdoch and the Fiction of Utterance 10. Saul Bellow and Cynthia Ozick’s "Corona of Moral Purpose" 11. Doris Lessing, ideologue Conclusion 12. Roads Not Taken. Critical Bibliography. Name Index.