He saw in the Kierkegaard-Regine Olsen relation connections to his own experiences with Seidler. In life there is only the separate and individual, the concrete. To exist is to be different. After 1948 the historical novel declined but showed again revival in the works of Anatole France, Romain Rolland, and Heinrich Mann. He also criticized Bertold Brecht 's dramatic theories in 1934.
Realism is the only literary mode capable of representing the totality of society.
Bourgeois thought is repeated in naturalism and subjectivism. Naturalism is degraded form of realism and limits itself to description instead of narration. Subjectivist art elevates art as the product of the superior subjective consciousness of the creative artist. The Universal appears as a quality of the individual and the particular, reality becomes manifest and can be experienced within appearance. Deutsche Realisten des 19.