Man and vocation: James Joyce: Genesis of an artist. Jean-Paul Sartre: A portrait of the existentialist as a young man. Ralph Ellison: A portrait of the Negro as a young man.
Man and nature: Joseph Conrad: Nostromo and the orders of creation: an ontological argument. Albert Camus: Microbe against man. Thomas Mann: "For everything there is a season".
Man and other men: D. H. Lawrence: the paradisal quest. George Orwell: The demonic comedy. Virginia Woolf: The soul's sad delight.
Man and God: François Mauriac: The mysteries of evil and grace. Franz Kafka: The lonely journey. Hermann Broch: Waiting for the Logos.
Bibliography: p. 281-284.