Research Catalog

Title

The theory of the novel; a historico-philosophical essay on the forms of great epic literature. Translated from the German by Anna Bostock.

Author

Lukács, György, 1885-1971

Publication

Cambridge, Mass., M.I.T. Press [1971]

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Details

Additional Authors

Bostock, Anna

Description

160 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

Like many of Lukacs's early essays, Theory of the Novel is a radical critique of bourgeois culture and stems from a specific Central European philosophy of life and tradition of dialectical idealism whose originators include Kant, Hegel, Novalis, Marx, Kierkegaard, Simmel, Weber, and Husserl. It marks the transition of the Hungarian philosopher from Kant to Hegel and was Lukacs's last great work before he turned to Marxism-Leninism.

Uniform Title

Theorie des Romans. English

Alternative Title

Theorie des Romans.

Subject

• Fiction > History and criticism
• Epic literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• Literary form

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Translation of Die Theorie des Romans.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Integrated civilisations -- The problems of a philosophy of the history of forms -- The epic and the novel -- The inner form of the novel -- The historico-philosophical conditioning of the novel and its significance -- Abstract idealism -- The romanticism of disillusionment -- Wilhelm Meister's years of apprenticeship as an attempted synthesis -- Tolstoy and the attempt to go beyond the social forms of life.

ISBN

• 0262120488
• 0262620278 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^73158647^//r83

OCLC

• 240544
• SCSB-9905660

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library