Seminar, three hours. Preparation: reading knowledge of at least one appropriate foreign language. Study of modern European novel's development from 19th to 21st century. Use of authors such as Hardy, Strindberg, Lagerkvist, Gide, Proust, Mann, Joyce, Kafka, Woolf, Nabokov, Grass, Christa Wolf, and Enquist to focus on development of themes such as shifting authority, gender conflicts, change versus stability, formal experimentation, and self-consciousness in narrative. May be concurrently scheduled with course C164. Graduate students required to prepare papers based on texts read in original languages whenever possible and to meet one additional hour each week. S/U or letter grading.