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Table of Contents

About the Author

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chronology

Chapter One
Voyage into Namelessness: Palace of the Peacock

Chapter Two
A Naked Particle of Freedom: The Far Journey of Oudin

Chapter Three
A Compassionate Alliance: The Whole Armour

Chapter Four
The Immaterial Constitution: The Secret Ladder

Chapter Five
Between Two Worlds: Heartland

Chapter Six
The Heart of Inarticulate Protest: The Eye of the Scarecrow

Chapter Seven
A Primordial Species of Fiction: The Waiting Room

Chapter Eight
An Epic of Ancestors: Tumatumari

Chapter Nine
A "Novel-Vision of History": Ascent to Omai

Chapter Ten
"The Novel as Painting": From The Sleepers of Roraima to The Tree of the Sun

Notes and References

Selected Bibliography

Index