Peter Brooks is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar at Princeton University. He is the author of many works of literary criticism, including Henry James Goes to Paris (Princeton), Reading for the Plot, Psychoanalysis and Storytelling, and Troubling Confessions. He is also the author of two novels, The Emperor's Body and World Elsewhere.

"A wide range of knowledge allows Brooks to make myriad connections and to cast a wider net, as it were, around his topic, finding resonances in many places."--Stephan Delbos, Prague Post "Rich, complex, and rewarding."--Choice "Elegant and provocative, Enigmas of Identity offers new insights into the questions and clues about who we think we are."--World Book Industry "Brooks's aim--to enrich his reader's thinking about identity--was certainly fulfilled for this reader, and should be for anyone who has a broad education including the literary territory which the book takes for granted. Readers with a different background, such as my students, might find Brooks's approach rambling and elitist. Let us be thankful that there is still room in publishing today for such a rewarding elitist ramble."--John Joseph, European Legacy

• To Begin 1 Chapter 1. Marks of Identity 10 Chapter 2. Egotisms 35 Chapter 3. The "Outcast of the Universe"? 60 Chapter 4. Discovering the Self in Self-Pleasuring 92 Chapter 5. "Inevitable Discovery": Searches, Narrative, Identity 117 Chapter 6. The Derealization of Self 147 Chapter 7. The Madness of Art 170 Epilogue: The Identity Paradigm 195 Acknowledgments 199 Notes 201 Index 217

Peter Brooks is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar at Princeton University. He is the author of many works of literary criticism, including Henry James Goes to Paris (Princeton), Reading for the Plot, Psychoanalysis and Storytelling, and Troubling Confessions. He is also the author of two novels, The Emperor's Body and World Elsewhere.

"A wide range of knowledge allows Brooks to make myriad connections and to cast a wider net, as it were, around his topic, finding resonances in many places."--Stephan Delbos, Prague Post "Rich, complex, and rewarding."--Choice "Elegant and provocative, Enigmas of Identity offers new insights into the questions and clues about who we think we are."--World Book Industry "Brooks's aim--to enrich his reader's thinking about identity--was certainly fulfilled for this reader, and should be for anyone who has a broad education including the literary territory which the book takes for granted. Readers with a different background, such as my students, might find Brooks's approach rambling and elitist. Let us be thankful that there is still room in publishing today for such a rewarding elitist ramble."--John Joseph, European Legacy

• To Begin 1 Chapter 1. Marks of Identity 10 Chapter 2. Egotisms 35 Chapter 3. The "Outcast of the Universe"? 60 Chapter 4. Discovering the Self in Self-Pleasuring 92 Chapter 5. "Inevitable Discovery": Searches, Narrative, Identity 117 Chapter 6. The Derealization of Self 147 Chapter 7. The Madness of Art 170 Epilogue: The Identity Paradigm 195 Acknowledgments 199 Notes 201 Index 217

Peter Brooks is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar at Princeton University. He is the author of many works of literary criticism, including Henry James Goes to Paris (Princeton), Reading for the Plot, Psychoanalysis and Storytelling, and Troubling Confessions. He is also the author of two novels, The Emperor's Body and World Elsewhere.

"A wide range of knowledge allows Brooks to make myriad connections and to cast a wider net, as it were, around his topic, finding resonances in many places."--Stephan Delbos, Prague Post "Rich, complex, and rewarding."--Choice "Elegant and provocative, Enigmas of Identity offers new insights into the questions and clues about who we think we are."--World Book Industry "Brooks's aim--to enrich his reader's thinking about identity--was certainly fulfilled for this reader, and should be for anyone who has a broad education including the literary territory which the book takes for granted. Readers with a different background, such as my students, might find Brooks's approach rambling and elitist. Let us be thankful that there is still room in publishing today for such a rewarding elitist ramble."--John Joseph, European Legacy

• To Begin 1 Chapter 1. Marks of Identity 10 Chapter 2. Egotisms 35 Chapter 3. The "Outcast of the Universe"? 60 Chapter 4. Discovering the Self in Self-Pleasuring 92 Chapter 5. "Inevitable Discovery": Searches, Narrative, Identity 117 Chapter 6. The Derealization of Self 147 Chapter 7. The Madness of Art 170 Epilogue: The Identity Paradigm 195 Acknowledgments 199 Notes 201 Index 217