[eBook Code] Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900 (eBook Code, 1st)

Acknowledgments ix

Also by Daniel R. Schwarz xi

1 Introduction: The Novel After 1900 1

2 Cultural Crisis: Decadence and Desire in Mann’s Death in Venice (1912) 13

3 Proust’s Swann’s Way (1913) and the Novel of Sensibility: Memory, Obsession, and Consciousness 34

4 The Metamorphosis (1915): Kaf ka’s Noir Challenge to Realism 59

5 Camus’s Indifferent, Amoral, and Godless Cosmos: The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947) as Existential Novels 77

6 Why Giorgio Bassani Matters: The Elegiac Imagined World of Bassani and the Jews of Ferrara 109

7 The Novel as Elegy: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s The Leopard (1958) 126

8 Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum (1959): Reconfiguring European History as Fable 144

9 Imre Kertész’s Fatelessness (1975): Rendering the Holocaust as a Present Tense Event 176

10 Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984): History as Fate 197

11 Saramago’s The History of the Siege of Lisbon (1989): Rewriting History, Reconfiguring Lives 223

12 Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red (1998): Cultural Conflict in Sixteenth‐Century Istanbul and its Modern Implications 242

13 Herta Müller’s The Hunger Angel (2009): A Hunger for Life, A Hunger for Words 265

14 Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet: Women Discovering Their Voices in a Violent and Sexist Male Society 286

Selected Bibliography (Including Works Cited) 327

Index 334