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  • Introduction: concepts and contradictions :
  • 1. 'I am a member of the bourgeois class' ; 2. Dissonances ; 3. Burgeoisie, middle class ; 4. Between history and literature ; 5. Abstract hero ; 6. Prose and keywords: preliminary remarks ; 7. 'The bourgeois is lost...'
  • I. A working master :
  • 1. Adventure, enterprise, 'fortuna' ; 2. 'This will testify for me that I was not idle' ; 3. Keywords I: 'Useful' ; 4. Keywords II: 'Efficiency' ; 5. Keywords III: 'Comfort' ; 6. Prose I: 'The rhythm of continuity' ; 7. Prose II: 'We have discovered the productivity of the spirit...'
  • II. Serious Century :
  • 1. Keywords IV: 'Serious' ; 2. Fillers ; 3. rationalization ; 4. Prose III: reality principle ; 5. Description, conservatism, 'Realpolitik' ; 6. Prose IV: 'A transposition of the objective into the subjective'
  • III. Fog :
  • 1. Naked, shameless, and direct ; 2. 'Behind the veil' ; 3. The Gothic, un déja-la ; 4. The gentleman ; 5. Keywords V: 'Influence' ; 6. Prose V: Victorian adjectives ; 7. Keywords VI: 'Earnest' ; 8. 'Who loves not Knowledge?' ; 8. Prose VI: Fog
  • IV. 'National malformations': Metamorphoses in the Semi-Periphery :
  • 1. Balzac, Machado, and money ; 2. Keywords VII: 'Roba' ; 3. Persistence of the Old Regime: The Doll ; 4. Persistence of the Old Regime II: Torquemada ; 5. 'There's arithmetic for you!'
  • V. Ibsen and the Spirit of Capitalism :
  • 1. The grey area ; 2. 'Signs against signs' ; 3. Buourgeous prose, capitailst poetry