Myth in the Modern Novel: Imagining the Absolute posits a twofold
thesis. First, although Modernity is regarded as an era dominated
by science and rational thought, it has in fact not relinquished
the hold of myth, a more "primitive" form of thought which is
difficult to reconcile with modern rationality. Second, some of the
most important statements as to the reconcilability of myth and
Modernity are found in the work of certain prominent novelists.
This book offers a close examination of the work of eleven writers
from the late eighteenth century to the beginning of the
twenty-first, representing German, French, American, Czech and
Swedish literature. The analyses of individual novels reveal a
variety of intriguing views of myth in Modernity, and offer an
insight into the "modernizing" transformations myth has undergone
when applied in the modern novel. The study shows the presence of
the "subconscious", the mythic layer, in modern western culture and
how this has been dealt with in novelistic literature.
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