A Future for Astyanax Books by Leo Bersani Character and Desire in Literature Marcel Proust: The Fietions of Life and of Balrac to Becket: Center and Circumference in Fr AA Forure for Astyamnax: Character and Desire in. by Leo Bersani Little, Brown and Company ~Boston—Torontoora 69196 0 revi _Derthe tyme ou Pte fr rts i Be Now Jom Pees a Er Ret apee stone or ein ec pan hel None Fae ube inthe al ony suc! Cygne ‘cary of Cars Cag a itn Dass erie Rr for Assan, mht geet I esieapis Doss D, Cision Sy hints oon & Comper (Cant ied For Richard Poirier‘Contents: Preface ix Murderous Lovers 3 PART ONE Structures of Desire (ons) Racing, Paychosnlyssand Oxdipus 17 Two. Realsmandthe Feseof Desire 51 runes. Enna Bovary andthe Seaseof Sex sour, The Paranoid Heroin Stendhal 1a me TheJamesianLie 138 sox Laweentian Sines 156 PART TWO ‘The Deconstructed Self eves, Desieand Metamorphosis 189 svar, Rimbsad’s Simplisty 30 (Se \Araud,Defeeation and ith 299 \geneThesters of Desire (Joe Chaikin, Robert Wilson andothers) 75 vex, Pesionsin Poces 286 Nowe 317 Index 338