Table of Contents

• Introduction: Narrative Consciousness
• Part I: Kafka
  • 1. The Inevitability of Ritual: Life Cycle of a Kafka Character
  • 2. A Derivation of Meaning from Point of View
• Part II: Beckett
  • 3. The Form of Consciousness: Modified Patterns
  • 4. The Dominance of Point of View
• Part III: Robbe-Grillet
  • 5. Toward a New Novel: A Theory for Fiction
  • 6. Internalized Reality: The Subjective Point of View
  • 7. Structure as Process: The Temporal Point of View
• Conclusion
  • Conclusion: A Third Way in Modern Fiction
• Appendixes
  • 1. Kafka in France
  • 2. Kafka Criticism
  • 3. Beckett Criticism
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

George H. Szanto is Professor Emeritus of Communications, McGill University, Montreal. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1988.