ch. 2. Georg Büchner: the idiom of antiheroism
ch. 3. Gogol's "The Overcoat": the meanings of a downfall
ch. 4. Dostoevsky's underground man: portrait of the paradoxalist
ch. 5. Flaubert's "A Simple Heart": pathos and irony
ch. 6. Italo Svevo, or the paradoxes of the antihero
ch. 7. Idiot Schweik or in praise of cunning
ch. 8. Max Frisch: the courage of failure
ch. 9. Voice of Camus: neither saint nor hero
ch. 10. Primo Levi and the canto of Ulysses.