This comparative literature fieldwork emerged, he writes fredric jamesonFrom a simple experience: dissatisfaction with endings. How many times have we encountered a text—say, a novel or a film—whose ending seems the result of an arbitrary choice by the author, leaving us deeply dissatisfied? With this premise, Jameson embarks on one of those journeys through Western literature, as fascinating as they are dizzying, that have made him famous: from Heliodorus to Goethe, from Milton to Manzoni, from Kant to George Eliot, Jameson studies the various relationships between immanence and transcendence in the novels of the last few centuries. The work is completed with an epilogue by Julián Jiménez Heffernan that contextualizes Jameson's study while delving deeper into some of the themes the American author raises.