ABSTRACT
Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary offered a sociological-genealogical analysis of classic works by some of the best-known figures of European culture. The first two parts of this book, even adding Chapter 7, which is closely connected to Chapter 3, still discussed some of the best-known figures of twentieth century culture, though works that had an incomplete character. In the rest of Part Three, unpublished works of much less known figures dominate – culminating in the last two chapters, devoted to extremely long books by an Austrian and a Hungarian writer that are hardly known outside their local context. Yet, no paradox is intended to finish a project focusing on European culture by them; and perhaps the best way to introduce their proposed centrality is to present the truly striking parallels between these two books.
