Margery Arent Safir is Professor of Comparative Literature, The American University of Paris. Her previous publications include Earth Tones: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda (with Manuel Duran); A Woman of Letters; and Archipelago (a translation of the novel by Michel Rio).

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Margery Arent SafirEditor's Note 1. Out of Time in the Dreaming Jungles Stephen Jay Gould2. "It is not safe to know" Margery Arent Safir3. A Disenchanted Enchanter Michel Pastoureau4. Cosmoses and Metaphor James Ritter5. Topographies James Swenson6. The Temptation of the Last Man Jean-Michel Rabaté7. The Aztec tlacuilo and the Other Joaquín Galarza8. The Mind's I Christian MetzAppendices Contributors Index

"It is high time that Michel Rio's opus—which began in 1982 with Melancholy North and was crowned in 1992 with a Medicis Prize for Tlacuilo—became the object of a serious piece of work. Margery Arent Safir has surrounded herself with seven top researchers from diverse disciplines and nationalities, each of whom, from the point of his or her particular specialty, analyzes Rio's work…."This multidisciplinary project is the logical extension of Rio's own work, which grapples with finding the meeting point—and by way of fiction examining its relevance—of literature and knowledge. By looking at Rio's novels, the essays collected in this volume explore the ways in which theory and knowledge are transformed into novelistic material….The book, therefore, is complex, but fascinating from beginning to end." –-Josyanne Savigneau, Le Monde

Margery Arent Safir is Professor of Comparative Literature, The American University of Paris. Her previous publications include Earth Tones: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda (with Manuel Duran); A Woman of Letters; and Archipelago (a translation of the novel by Michel Rio).

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Margery Arent SafirEditor's Note 1. Out of Time in the Dreaming Jungles Stephen Jay Gould2. "It is not safe to know" Margery Arent Safir3. A Disenchanted Enchanter Michel Pastoureau4. Cosmoses and Metaphor James Ritter5. Topographies James Swenson6. The Temptation of the Last Man Jean-Michel Rabaté7. The Aztec tlacuilo and the Other Joaquín Galarza8. The Mind's I Christian MetzAppendices Contributors Index

"It is high time that Michel Rio's opus—which began in 1982 with Melancholy North and was crowned in 1992 with a Medicis Prize for Tlacuilo—became the object of a serious piece of work. Margery Arent Safir has surrounded herself with seven top researchers from diverse disciplines and nationalities, each of whom, from the point of his or her particular specialty, analyzes Rio's work…."This multidisciplinary project is the logical extension of Rio's own work, which grapples with finding the meeting point—and by way of fiction examining its relevance—of literature and knowledge. By looking at Rio's novels, the essays collected in this volume explore the ways in which theory and knowledge are transformed into novelistic material….The book, therefore, is complex, but fascinating from beginning to end." –-Josyanne Savigneau, Le Monde

Margery Arent Safir is Professor of Comparative Literature, The American University of Paris. Her previous publications include Earth Tones: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda (with Manuel Duran); A Woman of Letters; and Archipelago (a translation of the novel by Michel Rio).

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Margery Arent SafirEditor's Note 1. Out of Time in the Dreaming Jungles Stephen Jay Gould2. "It is not safe to know" Margery Arent Safir3. A Disenchanted Enchanter Michel Pastoureau4. Cosmoses and Metaphor James Ritter5. Topographies James Swenson6. The Temptation of the Last Man Jean-Michel Rabaté7. The Aztec tlacuilo and the Other Joaquín Galarza8. The Mind's I Christian MetzAppendices Contributors Index

"It is high time that Michel Rio's opus—which began in 1982 with Melancholy North and was crowned in 1992 with a Medicis Prize for Tlacuilo—became the object of a serious piece of work. Margery Arent Safir has surrounded herself with seven top researchers from diverse disciplines and nationalities, each of whom, from the point of his or her particular specialty, analyzes Rio's work…."This multidisciplinary project is the logical extension of Rio's own work, which grapples with finding the meeting point—and by way of fiction examining its relevance—of literature and knowledge. By looking at Rio's novels, the essays collected in this volume explore the ways in which theory and knowledge are transformed into novelistic material….The book, therefore, is complex, but fascinating from beginning to end." –-Josyanne Savigneau, Le Monde