Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Actual Infinities: Cantor's Proofs and Modern Fiction; The Missed Encounter; Cantor's Transfinite; Mallarmé and Meillassoux: Fixing the Infinite; Allegory and Enigma; 2 The Aleph: Jorge Luis Borges and the Measure of Prose; Supplanting the Symbol for the 'Thing Itself': Borges's Ultraist Beginnings; 'Funes, His Memory': A Transfinite Technogenesis of Perception; 'The Library of Babel'; 'The Lottery of Babylon'; What is a Transfinite Allegory?; 3 The Lemniscate: Infinite Shapes in the Work of Samuel Beckett

A Mania for Symmetry: Molloy and the Continuous Deformation of LanguagePermutation and Division in Watt; All Strange Away and Imagination Dead Imagine: Imagination by Numbers; 4 One: J.M. Coetzee and the Name of the Number; 'Literature in the Lap of Mathematics': The Quantification of Style; In the Heart of the Country: Freedom and Equality; The Childhood of Jesus and Mathematical Nominalism; Counting as One, Rather than Counting to One; Conclusion
X: Literary Infinities after Zeno and Cantor; Works Cited; Index