Description: What makes characters seem real? This book explores the ways Tolstoy and Dostoevsky created the illusion of autonomous characters, through techniques that paradoxically hindered the writers' ambitions for the novel as a genre.
Review Quotes: "The core of this book's excellence lies in the pellucid, keen, energetic, surprising, and revelatory textual readings themselves. The texts lead the theory, which responds and adapts, allowing Kitzinger to draw forth utterly new meanings and consequences form the novels we thought we knew." --Yuri Corrigan, author of Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self (Northwestern University Press, 2017)