De Lukács à Lukács Itinéraire d’un remembrement

The article intends to show that the works of Lukács from his younger years, among which The Theory of the Novel is included, do not represent a golden age that Lukács would subsequently be irreversibly removed from. The author argues that Lukács is in fact ultimately the first heir to his early works. The article emphasizes that Lukács’s revisiting of his works on literature and the novel during the 1930s attests to a continuity in his thinking.