I
Against interpretation
On style

II
The artist as exemplary sufferer
Simone Weil
Camus' Notebooks
Michel Leiris' Manhood
The anthropologist as hero
The literary criticism of Georg Lukacs
Sartre's Saint Genet
Nathalie Sarraute and the novel

III
Ionesco
Reflections on The Deputy
The death of tragedy
Going to theater, etc.
Marat / Sade / Artaud

IV
Spiritual style in the films of Robert Bresson
Godard's Vivre Sa Vie
The imagination of disaster
Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures
Resnais' Muriel
A note on novels and films

V
Piety without content
Psychoanlysis and Norman O. Brown's Life Against Death
Happenings : an art of radical juxtraposition
Notes on "Camp"
One culture and the new sensibility