9780719071560 -- 9780719071560 -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Dantes in Limbo -- Detecting Dante in Joyce -- Recycling Dante in Proust -- Belacqua does not observe 'the rule of the road' -- There is no real Belacqua in Dream -- Dante and Mr Beckett -- Sordello is in the shade -- Strata and mysteries: intratextuality in More Pricks Than Kicks -- Quick deaths -- Screechy flatfooted Tuscany peacocks -- Fatigue and disgust: Murphy and Watt -- Dante is kept out of sight: Murphy and the manuscripts -- Addenda and excorporations -- Who is the third beside you? Authority in Mercier and Camier -- Vague shadowy shapes -- No quotes at any price -- Déjà vu beyond reach: from the Novellas to the Three Novels -- The calmative effect of one's classics -- Odds and ends -- Bits and scraps flickering on and off -- Staging the Inferno in How It Is -- A voice comes to one in the dark -- 'E fango è il mondo': the Inferno performed -- Geometries of passion -- The witness and the scribe -- 'In the words of the poet': The Lost Ones -- Ravening eyes -- Closed places -- The sun and other stars would still be shining -- Conclusion Farewell to the old lutist -- Bibliography -- Index.