CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Translation -- Introduction: A Scientist in His Life's Project -- PART I: The Making of a Romantic Character (1911-1947) -- 1. "I Have Never in My Life Felt I Belonged in the Place Where I Lived" -- 2. "Stylistically, I'm Best at Irony" -- 3. "I Wanted to Study Something That Couldn't Be Used" -- 4. "I Have the Feeling That Everything Around Me Is Enveloped in a Mist" -- 5. "When I Look at Other Scientists . . . None of Them Have Wasted as Many Years as I Have" -- 6. "Now I Think Nobody Can Keep Me from Becoming a Doctor" -- 7. "To Be Able to Let Nature Reflect in the Depths of My Own Soul" -- 8. "I Am Branded with Infidelity, and See That Open-Eyed" -- 9. "Letters Are a Spiritual Spiderweb in Which You Snare the Dreaming Soul of Woman" -- Part II: The Making of the Selection Theory (1947-1954) -- 10. "The Happiness of Feeling Superior to a Lot of People" -- 11. "I Think the Work Has Principal Application to Immunology" -- 12. "Antibody This, Antibody That, They Weren't Really Much Interested" -- 13. "These People Don't Know What They're Doing" -- 14. "I Suppose I Should Do Something, Maybe an Experiment or Something" -- Parabasis: The Selection Theory as a Personal Confession -- Part III: A Man, His Theory, and His Network (1954-1994) -- 15."My Hopes and Failures Are Within Myself" -- 16. "This Theory Hadn't Made Much of a Stir, So Now, What Was I to Do?" -- 17. "I'd Better Make Sure I Learn a Little about Immunology" -- 18. "Finally, My Precious, I Have to Be Brilliant and Make Antibodies" -- 19. "Like a Log Coming Slowly to the Surface of a Lake" -- 20. "I Still Think That My Original Natural Selection Theory Was Better" -- 21. "Immunology Is for Me Becoming a Mostly Philosophical Subject" -- Epilogue: "What Struggle to Escape" -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Notes -- Unpublished Sources.

Bibliography -- Index.