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The theory of the novel

Paperback • 1978 • English

The theory of the novel: a historico-philosophical essay on the forms of great epic literature

By Lukács, György

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About the book

Georg Lukács wrote The Theory of the Novel in 1914-1915, a period that also saw the conception of Rosa Luxemburg's Spartacus Letters, Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Spengler's Decline of the West, and Ernst Bloch's Spirit of Utopia. Like many of Lukács's early essays, it 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, Kierkega...Show more

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9780850362367

Publisher

Merlin Press

Published year

1978

Language

English

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The theory of the novel

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Paperback

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