Fiction refracts science: modernist writers from Proust to Borges

Introduction : prefatory thoughts on two or more cultures

What the modernists knew about the history of science from Pascal to Heisenberg

Robert Musil and the dilemma of modernist epistemology

Proust, Poincaré, and contingency

Kafka's search for laws

James Joyce and the laws of everything

Modernist thought experiments after Joyce

Conclusion : science and postmodernity.