Front Cover -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- By Way of a Prologue -- The Continuing Adventures of Mr Ross Hall, Esq. (& Madam Zell) -- A Critical Consciousness: Heinrich von Kleist -- Being Nice to Nietzsche -- Shelf-Life: Varieties of the Aphorism -- Scheherezade in Vienna: Joseph Roth -- Berlin Diary -- A Jolly Good Show: How the British Saw Their Empire -- Overwhelmed by Aura -- Politics and Aesthetics: Harry Graf Kessler, Eugene Jolas, Wolfgang Koeppen -- 'You Must Change Your Life': A Letter from Kakania -- Bile with Style -- The Future of the Walk -- Cinema Verities -- Candour and Hygiene: Louis-Ferdinand Céline -- Third Person to Herself: Marguerite Duras -- Believing in Architecture: Berlin since -- The Last Culture Broth: Bernard Pivot's Bookshow -- Windfowl and Their Advantages -- Kafka and America -- Paris, France: An Afternoon with Mavis Gallant -- Russia and the End of Time -- Next Year in Jerusalem: Britain in Palestine -- The Life and Times of Tomi Ungerer -- A Stuttered Essay on the French -- Five Postcards from Badenweiler for Zinovy Zinik -- Iliad of Abject Europe: Airwar, Literature and Compassion -- The Good European: Nietzsche's Counterculture -- A Lance for Hire: Four Hundred Years of Don Quixote -- All the Glory of His Father's House -- The Road Not Taken -- Afterword -- Notes and Acknowledgements -- Index.