Part 1. Cybernetics and ghosts -- Philosophy and literature -- Cinema and the novel: problems of narrative -- Right and wrong political uses of literature -- Levels of reality in literature -- Part 2. Why read the classics? -- The Odysseys within the Odyssey -- Candide: an essay in velocity -- The city as protagonist in Balzac -- On Fourier, I-III -- Stendhal's knowledge of the "Milky way" -- In memory of Roland Barthes -- Man, the sky, and the elephant

1. Literature
2. Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism