Contents -- 1. Toward a Reading of Political Novels -- 2. Time, Presence, Ethics: Imagining a Shared Reality -- 3. V. S. Naipaul: From Satire and Society to Politics -- 4. Graham Greene: Political Virtue and the Fiction of Innocence -- 5. The Head of State and the Politics of Eternal Return in Latin America -- 6. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Politics and the Facts of Life -- 7. Nadine Gordimer: Public and Private -- 8. Political Holocaust Fiction -- I. The Voyage of Jorge Semprun -- II. George Steiner's Holocaust: Politics and Theology -- 9. Günter Grass: Negativity and the Subversion of Paradigms -- 10. Between East and West: A Letter to Milan Kundera -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.