Sympathy for the abyss: a study in the novel of German modernism : Kafka, Broch, Musil, and Thomas Mann

Front matter --; Introduction: Eurydice Lost --; I. The Modernist Turn --; II. Viennese Baroque: Temporality and Allegory in Die Schlafwandler of Hermann Broch --; III. The Cloud of Polonius: Rewriting Reality in Robert Musil's Mann ohne Eigenschaften --; IV. The Lamentation of Josef K.: Conscience and Irony in Kafka's Prozeß --; V. In the Crystal Garden: The Replenishment of Art and the Ecology of Man in Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus --; VI. Epilogue: The Quixotic Word --; Bibliography