In Praise of Antiheroes

Acknowledgments
1. Unheroic Modes
2. Georg Büchner: The Idiom of Antiheroism
3. Gogol's "The Overcoat": The Meanings of a Downfall
4. Dostoevsky's Underground Man: Portrait of the Paradoxalist
5. Flaubert's "A Simple Heart": Pathos and Irony
6. Italo Svevo, or The Paradoxes of the Antihero
7. Idiot Schweik, or In Praise of Cunning
8. Max Frisch: The Courage of Failure
9. The Voice of Camus: Neither Saint nor Hero
10. Primo Levi and the Canto of Ulysses
Appendix: Svevo's Witness
Notes
Index of Names