The lives of the novel : a history /
Pavel, Thomas G.,1941-author.
Translation of: La pensée du roman. Paris : Editions Gallimard, [2003]
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-317) and index.
Strong souls, degrees of perfection -- Helpless souls, tricksters, and rascalsod -- The center of action: elegiac stories and novellas -- An isolated realm, hesitant lovers: the pastoral -- Don Quixote and the history of the novel -- The new idealism -- Resistance to new idealism -- Love: romantic and impossible -- Novels and society -- From sensitive hearts to enigmatic psyches -- Syntheses, high points -- Loners in a strange world.
Fiction