The Theory of the Novel / A Historico-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature
- Merlin Press, 1971
- 160
The book marks a radical turning-point in Lukacs intellectual development and is essential to an understanding of him as a thinker. Preface, Integrated Civiliζations, The Problems of a Philosophy of the History of Forms, The Epic and the Novel, The Inner Form of the Novel, The Historic-Philosophical Conditioning of the Novel and its Significance, Attempt at a Typology of the Novel Form, Abstract Idealism, The Romanticism of Disillusionment, Wilbelm Meister's Years of Apprenticeship as an attempted synthesis, Tolstoy and the Attempt to go beyond the social forms of life, Index of Names, Index of Subjects.