[Gutenberg 26972] • Die Theorie des Romans / Ein geschichtsphilosophischer Versuch über die Formen der großen Epik

Georg Lukacs wrote *The Theory of the Novel* in 1914-1915, a period that also saw the conception of Rosa Luxemburg's *Spartacus Letters* , Lenin's *Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism* , Spengler's *Decline of the West* , and Ernst Bloch's *Spirit of Utopia*. Like many of Lukacs's early essays, it is a radical critique of bourgeois culture and stems from a specific Central European philosophy of life and tradition of dialectical idealism whose originators include Kant, Hegel, Novalis, Marx, Kierkegaard, Simmel, Weber, and Husserl.

*The Theory of the Novel* marks the transition of the Hungarian philosopher from Kant to Hegel and was Lukacs's last great work before he turned to Marxism-Leninism.