The novel : language and narrative from Cervantes to Calvino / André Brink.

The wrong side of the tapestry : Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha
Courtly love, private anguish : Madame de la Fayette, La Princesse de Clèves
'The woman's snare' : Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
The dialogic pact : Denis Diderot, Jacques the fatalist and his master
Charades : Jane Austen, Emma
The language of scandal : Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Quoted in slang : George Eliot, Middlemarch
The tiger's revenge : Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
A room without a view : Franz Kafka, The trial
The perfect crime : Alain Robbe-Grillet, Le voyeur
Making and unmaking : Gabriel García Márquez, One hundred years of solitude
Withdrawal and return : Margaret Atwood, Surfacing
Taking the gap : Milan Kundera, The unbearable lightness of being
Possessed by language : A.S. Byatt, Possession
The pranks of Hermes : Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveller.