The Fiction of RelationshipA clear and straightforward discussion of the ways in which literatures and their comparative study must depend upon the problematics of interpersonal and other relations. . . . This study will prove as useful as it is wide ranging, and indeed, comparative in the good sense. Mary Ann Caws, Graduate School, City University of New York Here is a comparatist working at the peak of his powers. . . . Weinstein moves easily from Goethe and Flaubert to Kafka