Awards

• Short-listed for Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society 2014
• Short-listed for Phi Beta Kappa's Christian Gauss Award 2014
• Shortlisted for Phi Beta Kappa's Christian Gauss Award 2014.
• Winner of Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize 2015
• Winner of Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize 2015.
• Winner of PROSE Awards: Literature 2013.

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Pavel's study raises questions that can enrich readings of a wide range of fiction: What does it mean to live a virtuous life? How can humans achieve justice? What is an individual's responsibility to the community? To what extent is self-knowledge possible? These enduring questions infuse this erudite, elegantly written history with passion and urgency. --Kirkus Reviews The Lives of the Novel, first published in French as La Pens?e du Roman, is a superb work that deserves to be very widely read by academics, students and anyone interested in the novel... [A]stounding and stimulating... [A] generous-hearted work... Intelligent, insightful and astonishingly well-informed, The Lives of the Novel is a major intervention and I imagine that it will become the standard work in this field, and remain so for years to come. Best of all, it was a pleasure to review because Pavel's love of literature just beams out of each page: reading this book is like the joy of meeting a stranger in a crowd at a pop festival and enthusing together about bands you both love. --Robert Eaglestone, Times Higher Education

Pavel's study raises questions that can enrich readings of a wide range of fiction: What does it mean to live a virtuous life? How can humans achieve justice? What is an individual?s responsibility to the community? To what extent is self-knowledge possible? These enduring questions infuse this erudite, elegantly written history with passion and urgency. --Kirkus Reviews

Pavel's study raises questions that can enrich readings of a wide range of fiction: What does it mean to live a virtuous life? How can humans achieve justice? What is an individual's responsibility to the community? To what extent is self-knowledge possible? These enduring questions infuse this erudite, elegantly written history with passion and urgency. --Kirkus Reviews

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Thomas G. Pavel is Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor of French, Comparative Literature, and Social Thought at the University of Chicago. His books include Fictional Worlds and The Spell of Language.

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