Explore the whole project

Begin with the history and reading samples. The comparative essays explain the independence of the two cycles. Thematic readings, the Twelve-Tone Writing atlas, and Dialogic Pragmatism then offer routes for sustained rereading. Synopses and close analyses reveal plot and endings.

• Introduction to the two cycles
• Alistair’s English cycle
• The German cycle
• Public reading samples
• Characters and the household
• Complete book catalog
• The four guides and concordances
• Postlude

• Schattendorf and Vienna, 1927: the history behind the novels
• The Interval is lived time.
• What the website can establish—and what it cannot.
• Kraus, Neumann, Doderer, Canetti and Mann
• Schattendorf 2027: centenary proposal
• Documentary history · coming soon

• Two cycles: their differences and purposes
• Fascism then and now
• Alistair and Doktor Faustus
• The literary achievement
• How the novels are made

• Index of thematic readings
• A house with more than one claim upon it.
• The painting cannot settle the life.
• Authority needs someone who can answer it.
• Knowing the injury does not give someone the injured life.
• Who can answer the record?
• Twelve colors. A recital that returns.
• An unfinished cadence still has consequences.
• Hermann’s life exceeds the document.
• Begin with the thing in someone’s hand.
• A life has claims beyond another person’s need.
• A serious website should state what the project may not have solved.

• Twelve-Tone Writing
• The Method
• Serial Operations
• The Prelude Laboratory
• Novel I — Exposition
• Novel II — Development and Countersubject
• Novel III — Stretto and Interrupted Completion
• Bilingual Example Atlas
• Object Transformations
• Countervoices
• Documentary Counterpoint
• Rests and Withheld Acts
• The Trill
• The Missing Twelfth
• Two independent tellings
• Genealogy and Originality
• Composition and Provenance
• Glossary
• Open Questions

• Dialogic Pragmatism
• Ten postulates of answerable action.
• The Schattendorf Tables
• The room, the record, and the state.
• Hitler and the Sovereign Tonic
• Twelve-Tone Writing and Dialogic Pragmatism
• What Dialogic Pragmatism is not.

• Liana Marie Sive: life and intellectual formation
• Rights, representation & reading
• Detailed German-cycle synopsis · full spoilers
• Alistair’s English synopsis · full spoilers
• Serious assessment—not praise on demand.
• Different questions require different books.
• Every use of a critique has its own authority.
• Request private reader access