Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Translation -- Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination -- What This Book Is About -- First, Confused Examples -- Making Decisions in Order to Proceed -- A Tree Neither Genealogical Nor Botanical -- Twelve Categories Not to Be Too Sharply Distinguished -- Some Twentieth-Century Novels -- Praising and Disparaging the Functional -- Notes -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names and Texts.