The essay as form -- On epic naiveté -- The position of the narrator in the contemporary novel -- On lyric poetry and society -- In memory of Eichendorff -- Heine the wound -- Looking back on surrealism -- Punctuation marks -- The artist as deputy -- On the final scene of Faust -- Reading Balzac -- Valéry's deviations -- Short commentaries on Proust -- Words from abroad -- Ernst Bloch's Spuren -- Extorted reconciliation : on Georg Lukács' Realism in our time -- Trying to understand Endgame
