The lives of the novel: a history

Strong souls, degrees of perfection

Helpless souls, tricksters, and rascals

The ideographic method

The center of action : elegiac stories and novellas

An isolated realm, hesitant lovers : the pastoral

Don Quixote and the history of the novel

The new idealism

Resistance to new idealism

Love : romantic and impossible

Novels and society

From sensitive hearts to enigmatic psyches

Syntheses, high points

Loners in a strange world.