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This Significant Exploration Of The Relationship Of Fiction To Age-old Conception Of Chaos And Crisis Brings Highly Concentrated Insights To Bear Upon Some Of The Most Unyielding Philosophical And Aesthetic Enigmas. Mr. Kermode Ranges Through The Works Of Writers From Plato To Sorokin, Showing How Men Have Persistently Imposed Their Fictions Upon The Face Of Eternity And How These Have Reflected The Apocalyptic Spirit. -- Back Cover Preface -- 1. The End -- 2. Fictions -- 3. World Without End Or Beginning -- 4. The Modern Apocalypse -- 5. Literary Fiction And Reality -- 6. Solitary Confinement -- Notes. Frank Kermode. Bibliographical References Includes In Notes (p. 181-187)