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The Life of a Novel: A Brief History of the Genre by Franco-Romanian literary scholar and critic Toma Pavel offers readers an original history of the main fictional genre. According to the author, the evolution of the novel is driven by the tension embedded within it. Combining various approaches to literary study, Pavel reveals the internal logic of the genre's development and the dialogue that novels have "conducted" with one another. He uncovers the continuity between the idealism of Antiquity and the Middle Ages, the realism of the Modern era, and the modernism of the 20th–21st centuries, which cultivates form and subjectivity. In each of these periods, the novel exposes a rift between the hero and their environment, posing an axiological question: whether the moral ideal of a person is part of the world order.
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