Jane Austen: The flight from fancy
Stendhal: The flight from reality
Dickens: The intrusion of the audience
Balzac: The boundaries of science
The quest for integral truth
Turgenev and the cult of the will
Tolstoy and the surrender of the will
Flaubert and the new romanticism
The desolation of reality
Dostoevsky and the unnatural triangle
The last phase: Freud and the broken will
D. H. Lawrence: sons and lovers
Joyce and dissociated metaphor.
