Erich Kahler The Inward Turn of Narrative. Princeton University Press, 1973. Bollingen Series LXXXIII. Translation by Richard and Clara Winston of "Die Verinnerung des Erzählens" in "Untergang und Übergang" (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1970). Foreword by Joseph Frank. 0691098913 xvi/214 pages. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in brown cloth, with a gilt-lettered black spine label. Book is in excellent condition. Dust jacket, with price of $9.50 on front flap, exhibits sunning to spine panel. "Erich Kahler sees cultural history as a subtle process in which reality plays upon consciousness and consciousness itself is forever transforming reality. He traces the ebb and flow of this relationship by studying change in narrative form from it beginnings in the Gilgamesh Cycle to the end of the eighteenth century. The general direction is toward a growing inwardness, he finds; what takes place is an expansion of consciousness as man constantly  draws oter space, the contens of a more and more complex world, into what Rilke called "Weltinnenraum," "world inner space."