Introduction / by Justin O'Brien -- [1.] Four lectures -- [2.] Barrès problem -- [3.] Imaginary interviews from "L'Ermitage" -- [4.] Nationalism and literature -- [5.] License, moral depravity, and Senator Bérenger's declarations -- [6.] In memoriam -- [7.] Baudelaire and M. Faguet -- [8.] Political essays -- [9.] Notes to Angèle -- [10.] Open letters -- [11.] Thoughts on Greek mythology -- [12.] Conversation with a German several years before the war -- [13.] Ten French novels... -- [14.] Théophile Gautier -- [15.] Prefaces -- [16.] Upon rereading "Les Plaisirs et les Jours" after the death of Marcel Proust -- [17.] Paul Valéry -- [18.] Dada -- [19.] Portraits and aphorisms.
