Description
Book SynopsisDraws on philosophical and novelistic texts from the Western European and Russian canons to explore a crucial moment in the epistemological history of narrative and present a nonreductive way of conjugating the histories of philosophy and the novel.
Trade Review“In this investigation of the ‘veridictory mutation’ in the modern European novel Ilya Kliger positions the genre’s rise amidst a broader shift in European thought (moving from Kant to Hegel) towards a conception of truth as embodied in a mediating and productive temporality. . . . Kliger’s compelling account of truth and narrative in the realist novel offers rich insights into the relationship between modernity’s shifting perceptions of time and truth, and the depictive power of the novel.”
—Mark Pettus Modern Language Review
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction: The Veridictory Mutation of the Novel
1. Precipitant Knowledge in Balzac
2. The Whole and the Untrue: Stendhal’s Fragile Veridiction
3. Enigma and Emplotment in Dostoevsky
4. Tolstoy’s Plotlines and Truth Shapes
Conclusion: Enduring the Schema in Modernist Time
Notes
Bibliography
Index
