Late Europeans and Melancholy Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium

Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1: The Late, the Melancholy, and the European
	Literary Lateness in Europe
	From Literary Lateness to the Melancholy of History
	European Fiction
Chapter 2: Detecting Lateness in Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano
	Memories and Tensions
	Lineage and Palimpsest
	Bricolage and Brocanterie
	Light and Shadow
	Absence and Emptiness
	A Dark Prison
Chapter 3: Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald: A Late Fairy Tale
	Granular Novelties
	Modern and Romantic Lateness
	Artists and Ruins
	Fortresses and False Worlds
	Underworlds and Thresholds
	Bearable Survival
Chapter 4: Exiled Lateness in Sefarad by Antonio Muñoz Molina
	Endings and Epigraphs
	Artefacts of Lateness
	Lateness and Liminality
	The Fantasy of Nostalgia
	Homelands and Erasure
	Difference and Compromise
Chapter 5: The Event Horizon of European Fiction
	Whither ‘European’ Fiction?
	Consolation and Defiance
	Event Horizon
Bibliography
	Primary
	Secondary
	Websites
Index