Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments (page ix)
- 1. Introduction: The Apocalyptic Vision and Fictions of Historical Desire (page 1)
- 2. Apocalypse and Human Time in the Fiction of Gabriel García Márquez (page 25)
- 3. Apocalypse and Entropy: Physics and the Fiction of Thomas Pynchon (page 52)
- 4. Art and Revolution in the Fiction of Julio Cortázar (page 76)
- 5. The Apocalypse of Style: John Barth's Self-Consuming Fiction (page 97)
- 6. Apocalypse and Renewal: Walker Percy and the U.S. South (page 120)
- 7. Beyond Apocalypse: Carlos Fuentes's Terra Nostra (page 148)
- 8. Individual and Communal Conclusions (page 176)
- Notes (page 193)
- Index (page 229)