Seduction of Pessimism in the Novel: Eros, Failure, and the Quarrel with Philosophy
by Ribitzky, Tom
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This book explores the novel as a response to the Platonic myth that narrates the rift at the core of our being. Eros is supposedly the consolation for this rift, but it expresses itself in the novel as the sigh of a world on its way out.