Introduction
Crime as a form of liberation : modeling revolt in Pickpocket and A man escaped
Word and image, world and nothingness : logocentrism and ironic reversal in Procès de Jeanne d'Arc, Diary of a country priest, and Les anges du péché
Man and animal, master and servant : animals and criminality Mouchette and Au hasard Balthazar
The aftermath of revolt : Une femme douce and The turn to color
Disintegration : Lancelot du Lac, or, the failure of identification and totality
The agony of ideas : The devil probably and revolutionary discourse
The last gasp : L'argent and the end of socialism.