TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE EDITORIAL REMARKS FROM THE GERMAN EDITION Ⅰ The Essay as Form On Epic Naivete The Position of the Narrator in the Contemporary Novel On Lyric Poetry and Society In Memory of Eichendorff Heine the Wound Looking Back on Surrealism Punctuation Marks The Artist as Deputy CONTENTS Ⅱ On the Final Scene of Faust Reading Balzac Valery's Deviations Short Commentaries on Proust Words from Abroad Ernst Bloch's Spuren Extorted Reconciliation: On Georg Lukacs' Realism in Our Time Trying to Understand Endgame NOTE8 INDEX