Preface | p. xiii |
Introduction | p. 3 |
Growing Up | |
Itinerary: Morning to Noon | p. 23 |
The Uses of Innocence | p. 42 |
William Blake's Chimney Sweeps | p. 42 |
Innocence and Growing Up in the Thirty Years' War: Simplicissimus | p. 48 |
Growing Up as Huckleberry Finn | p. 52 |
The Idiot's Tale: William Faulkner's Benjy | p. 60 |
The Little Princess: Marjane Satrapi's Marjane | p. 64 |
The Lessons of Experience | p. 72 |
Lazarillo do Tormes: The Hungry Child | p. 73 |
Picaresque Wisdom: The Swindler | p. 75 |
Honoré de Balzac's Père Goriot: A Capitalist Education | p. 81 |
Charles Dickens's Pip: Haunted and Homeless | p. 88 |
Understanding Power: Growing Up as the Invisible Man | p. 96 |
Love | p. 108 |
Falling in Love | p. 111 |
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet | p. 112 |
Abbé Prévost's Manon Lescaut | p. 116 |
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights | p. 123 |
Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre | p. 127 |
Marguerite Duras's The Lover | p. 130 |
Love Gone Wrong: The Story of Abuse | p. 139 |
Fyodor Dostoevsky | p. 141 |
Stories of Abuse: In the Margins | p. 143 |
Wuthering Heights Redux | p. 149 |
Jane Eyre Redux | p. 152 |
Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea | p. 155 |
Familial Sacrifice: Kindermord | p. 159 |
Charles Dickens | p. 160 |
Henrik Ibsen | p. 163 |
Going Under in Franz Kafka | p. 165 |
William Faulkner's Quentin Compson | p. 170 |
Systemwide Sacrifice: Children and the Nightmare of History | p. 174 |
Art Spiegelman's Maus | p. 175 |
Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | p. 183 |
The Wild Child | p. 191 |
William Faulkner's Light in August | p. 195 |
Tarjei Vesaas's The Ice Palace | p. 199 |
Toni Morrison's Sula | p. 206 |
Growing All the Way Up | p. 211 |
William Faulkner's Ike McCaslin | p. 212 |
Alice Walker's Celie | p. 220 |
Time's Paths, Literature's Paths | p. 231 |
Growing Old | |
Itinerary: Noon to Night | p. 235 |
Fathers Undone | p. 249 |
William Shakespeare's King Lear | p. 249 |
Honoré de Balzac's Père Goriot | p. 265 |
The Aging of a Salesman: Willy Loman | p. 270 |
Exiting the Stage | p. 276 |
Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder | p. 276 |
Eugène Ionesco's Exit the King | p. 282 |
The Old in Love | p. 285 |
Postsexual | |
Rip Van Winkle | p. 286 |
Charles Dickens | p. 287 |
August Strindberg | p. 288 |
William Faulkner | p. 290 |
Sexual Anxiety | |
Othello | p. 292 |
Tennessee Williams's Blanche DuBois | p. 294 |
Unsanctioned Lust | |
Molière | p. 298 |
Hamlet Accusing Gertrude | p. 300 |
Jean Racine's Phèdre | p. 301 |
Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov | p. 307 |
Thomas Mann's Death in Venice | p. 309 |
The Final Harvest | p. 314 |
The Final Harvest as Mirage | |
Discovering That You've Never Lived: Henrik Ibsen | p. 317 |
You Missed Your Life: Henry James | p. 319 |
Waiting for the Light: Franz Kafka's "Before the Law" | p. 322 |
Unmasked at the End: Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries | p. 323 |
Experience as Fraud: Montaigne, Sartre, Burroughs, Calvino | p. 332 |
The Good Fight | |
Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea | p. 337 |
Philip Roth's Everyman | p. 346 |
Life's Plenitude | |
Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders | p. 351 |
Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage | p. 354 |
James Joyce's Leopold Bloom | p. 360 |
Love's Legacy | p. 365 |
Keeping The Heart Alive | |
Gabriel García Márquez's Aureliano | p. 366 |
Ingmar Bergman's Helena | p. 368 |
The Eyes of Love | |
William Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 | p. 372 |
Old Cities, Old People: Sigmund Freud | p. 374 |
Poetry and Memory: Charles Baudelaire | p. 375 |
The Optics of Love: Marcel Proust | p. 377 |
Enduring Love | |
J. Bernlef's Out of Mind | p. 383 |
Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse | p. 395 |
J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace | p. 403 |
Conclusion | p. 417 |
Acknowledgments | p. 425 |
Bibliography | p. 427 |
Index | p. 431 |
Permissions Acknowledgments | p. 441 |
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