The idea of the political novel.--Stendhal: the politics of survival.--Dostoevsky: the politics of salvation.--Conrad: Order and anarchy.--Turgenev: The politics of hesitation.--Henry James: The political vocation.--Some Americans novelists: the politics of isolation.--Malraux, Silone, Koestler: the twentieth century.--Orwell: History as nightmare.
