Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Literature after the Death of God -- 1 Reading God/God Writing: The Irrational and Difficult Name -- 2 The Golden Bowl, Atheology, and Nothing -- 3 À La Recherche and Proust's Unstable Metaphors of Divinity -- 4 Proust's Theology of Music -- 5 Schoenberg's Godless Silences: Atonality, Poetry, and the Challenge of Coherence -- 6 Schoenberg's Impossible God: Moses und Aron -- Epilogue: The Other Side of God: Reading in the Dark -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.