Rambles through literary Paris -- Revolution of the word: transition manifestoes and history -- Proclamation ("Revolution of the word," June 1929) -- The novel is dead? Long live the novel (November 1929) -- Preface to the new Transition (March 1932) -- What is the revolution of language? (February 1933) -- Frontierless decade (April-May 1938) -- Transition: an Occidental workshop, 1927-1938 -- The language of the night -- The revolution of language in Elizabethan theater (June-July 1933) -- The king's English is dying: long live the great American language (June 1930) -- The language of the night -- Wanted: a new symbolical language! (March 1932) -- Wanted: a new communicative language! (March 1932) -- Confession about grammar (February 1933) -- Introduction to the negro who sings -- Race and language (June 1936) -- Inquiry into the spirit and language of the night (April-May 1938) -- Preface to Words from the deluge -- Logos (June 1929) -- From Jabberwocky to "lettrism" (January 1948) -- From Romanticism to the avant-garde -- Romanticism and the dream (June 1936) -- Romanticism is not dead -- Pan-romanticism in the atomic age -- Romanticism and metapolitics (after 1949) -- Stars and angels: homage to G. Th. Fechner, romantic savant and visionary -- Prolegomenon, or white Romanticism and the mythos of ascension (undated) -- Surrealism and romanticism (undated) -- Surrealism ave atque vale -- Crisis of man and language: verticalist/vertigralist manifestoes -- On the quest (December 1927) -- Notes on reality (November 1929) -- Preface to transition stories -- Literature and the new man (June 1930) -- Night-mind and day-mind (March 1932) -- Poetry is vertical (March 1932) -- The primal personality (February 1933) -- Twilight of the horizontal age (February 1933) -- Vertigralist transmutation (July 1935) -- Paramyths (July 1935) -- Workshop (July 1935) -- Vertigral (June 1936) -- Vertigralist pamphlet -- The quest and the myth -- Poetry of ascent -- Threefold ascent: verticalist manifesto (August 1941) -- Literary encounters -- Novalis -- Homage to Novalis (November 1929) -- Novalis, the mystic visionary (undated) -- Novalis, or the white Romanticism (January 15, 1951) -- Goethe -- The case of Goethe: was he a heroic figure or merely a philistine? (March 1932) -- Gide -- André Gide, mystic and dionysian (July 13, 1924) -- Kafka -- Franz Kafka's stories and ascending Romanticism -- Trakl -- Georg Trakl, poetry (January 15, 1951) -- Benn -- Gottfried Benn (August 1927) -- Jünger -- Ernst Jünger and the twilight of nihilism (November 1951) -- Breton -- André Breton's surrealism in 1950 (June 1950) -- Joyce -- The revolution of language and James Joyce (February 1928) -- Marginalia to James Joyce's work in progress (February 1933) -- Homage to the mythmaker (April-May 1938) -- My friend James Joyce (March-April 1941) -- Elucidation of James Joyce's monomyth: explication of Finnegans Wake (July 1948) -- Literature, culture, and politics -- Super-occident (February 1929) -- Goodbye to yesterday (October 1940) -- Toward a metaphysical renascence? (October 1940-March 1941) -- Super-occident and the Atlantic language (June 1941) -- Arts and letters in Latin America (July 1941) -- German letters in ruins: a report from Frankfurt (July 4, 1948) -- The migrator and his language (undated) -- Across frontiers -- Some notes on existentialism, Martin Heidegger, and poetry sales (November 1, 1949) -- Reemergence of Heidegger (November 1949) -- Heidegger in the atomic age (November 1949) -- Irrealism, immoralism, concretism (November 8, 1949) -- Origin and aim of history (November 15, 1949) -- A German nationalist (December 6, 1949) -- The absent avant-garde (February 7, 1950) -- German letters today (February 21, 1950) -- Negro culture (March 14, 1950) -- Franco-German cultural exchanges (March 21, 1950) -- German literary trends (May 23, 1950) -- Appendix: biography of Eugène Jolas.
