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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE	vii
I. ORDERS AND BORDERS	1
1.1 The Gap of the Grotesque	1
1.2 Contradiction: a Model of Conflict	5
1.3 The Roots of the Grotesque	9
1.4 The Method	14
II. CÉLINE'S VOYAGE AU BOUT DE LA NUIT: "A QUEST WITHOUT ANY MEANING"	15
2.1 Introduction	15
2.2 A Twisted Tale, A Twisted Teller	18
2.3 A Syncretic Style	19
2.4 Narrative Laxity	23
2.5 Bardamu's "Narraving"	30
2.6 A Mad Mad World	39
2.7 A Vast and Universal Mockery of War	40
2.8 The Degradation and Depravation of Misery	43
2.9 A Malevolent Mother Nature	47
III.GRASS ROOTS: TIN DRUM GROTESQUE	51
3.1. Introduction	51
3.2 The Circular Hermeneutics of Psychosis	55
3.3 Chaos, Disorder, and the Dissolution of the Family	70
3.4 Paternal Disability	74
3.5 Maternal Disaffection	78
3.6 Filial Discontinuity	85
IV. MADNESS AND INCEST IN CIEN AÑOS DE SOLEDAD	91
4.1 Introduction	91
4.2 Hermeneutic Delirium and One Hundred Years of Solitude	93
4.3 Madness and the Manuscript of Melquíades	94
4.4 Fiction and the Truth of the Lie	98
4.5 The Still Life that Moves	103
4.6 Family, Incest, and Social Decay	108
4.7 The Epic Answer and Paternal Order	109
4.8 The Repressive Response of the Eternal Maternal.	111
4.9 The Rebel and Resistance to Repression	113
4.10 The Failure of Repression and the Fall of the Family	115
V. THE DEFORMITY OF THE HUMAN BODY	119
VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY	125