Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-184) and index.
Contents
Prologue : "To negate nothingness" -- Tolstoy : "Caius is mortal" -- Thomas Mann and the lure of the abyss -- Kafka : the death journey in the everlasting present -- Virginia Woolf : "Death is the enemy" -- Albert Camus : the endless defeat -- Georgio Bassani : "Even objects die" -- J.M. Coetzee and the scandal of death -- Primo Levi : the flawed design.
