内容

目次

Introduction: Getting Started; or, Two Thousand Books Part 1. Reading 1.Writing It Down for James: Some Thoughts on Reading Toward the Millennium 2.Books in Flames: A View of Latin American Literature 3. The Lost Books 4.Hamlet in Haiti: Style in Carpentier's The Kingdom of This World 5. Tracesof Light: The Paradoxes of Narrative Painting and Pictorial Fiction 6. Truthas Fiction: Or, the Tail of the Monstrous Peacock 7. The Consolation of ArtPart 2. Rereading 8. You Can Read Wolfe Again 9. Stories of Deep Delight 10.Of Steinbeck and Salinas 11. The Return of James Agee 12. Mario Vargas Llosaand Conversation in the Cathedral: The Question of Naturalism 13. Where IsShe Going? Where Has She Been?: Elizabeth Tallent's "No One's a Mystery" andthe Poetry of Female Initiation 14. A Wintry Saga 15. Bernard and Juliet:Romance and Desire in Malamud's High Art 16. Fitzgerald's Christmas Carol, orthe Burden of "The Camel's Back" 17. A Note on Landscape in All the PrettyHorses 18. Rereading Traven Part 3. Writing 19. Confessions of anEx-Minimalist 20. On the Contemporary 21. Of the Making of Books 22. Voices:A Conversation