Dostoievski: the costs of unbelief in the major fiction.--Hardy and the Victorian malaise.--Kafka's anguish.--The modest optimism of Albert Camus.--Beckett's journey into the zone of zero.--Graham Greene: Christian tragedian.--Sola gratia: the principle of Bellow's fiction.--Flannery O'Connor's testimony: the pressure of glory.--Bibliographical notes and acknowledgments (p. 287-288).
