I. A Childhood of Books; Blindness and Time; Metaphysics; Cervantes; Memory; Early Work; Mirrors and Appearances II. The Living Labyrinth of Literature; Some Major Work; Nazis; Detective Stories; Ethics, Violence, and the Problem of Time III. Favorite Stories; Insomnia; A Changing Picture; Alice in Wonderland; Ulysses; Robert Browning; Henry James and Kafka; Melville IV. Tales and Meanings; Favorite Poems; The Gifts of Unhappiness; A Girl from Buenos Aires; Homer; Parables V. Filmscripts and Films; The Invasion; Acting; Lorca; Pablo Neruda; Unamuno; Other Arts VI. Darwin; Nietzche; Existentialism and Sartre; Freud; Symmetries; The Patterns of Coincidence; Tolerance and Skepticism; Perón VII. Literature as Pleasure; The Maker; The Literature of Literature; A Change in Direction; Don Quixote and Cervantes; Hiroshima; Death and the Problem of Infinity; Dissolving Reality