Introduction: Fiction and interpretation, a dialogue -- Nabokov's watermark: writing the self in Pale fire -- Self-alignment: John Hawkes' Travesty -- Self, narrative, history: the system of John Barth's Letters -- "A book of traces": Gravity's rainbow -- World dactylic: Flannery O'Connor's Wise blood -- Wor(l)d made flesh: Stanley Elkin's The franchiser -- Entanglement: the reader in contemporary fiction.
