(Other books bythe same author published by The MIT Pres SOUL. AND FORM The Theory of the Novel A historico-philorophicel essay on the forms of great ebie Bis by GEORG LUKACS THE MIT PRESS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUS“Thireenth printing, 1996 Fist MIT Pres 1 First published by P. Caster, Berlin, 1920 ssn 0 262 12048 8 (hardcover) 10 262 62027 8 (paperback) TRANSLATOR'S NOTE, I should like to acknowledge my debt to Jean Clairevoye, the translator of this book into French (La Théorie du roman, mns Gonthier, Geneva 1963), whose version T consulted at all stages of my work. AB.I Integrated Civilisations < Happy are those ages when the sky is the map vhose paths are like a home, for the fire essential nature as the and the fire, are sharply soul becomes meaningful and rounde. plete in meaning—in sense own and draws a closed! | Philosophy is really homesick- | is the urge to be at home every- circumference rou! ness,” says Novalis: