Lukács repudiated his early theory of the novel as idealistic and mythological

Evidence

Lukács first basically disavowed his theory about the novel, on the grounds that it was "idealistic and mythological". He contrasted with it the way in which history was given content by Marx's dialectics.' He strongly rejected Bloch's interpretation of his agnosticism’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 300

Categorization

• QUESTION: This is a significant moment — Lukács publicly recanting Theory of the Novel decades before his more famous self-critiques. Worth chasing the fuller context of this 1925 conversation.
• XREF: connects to: Lukács’s Theory of the Novel harbors a form-content contradiction that undermines its conclusions — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 368; Lukács holds that epic rebirth awaits social transformation, not the novelist’s will — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 367; Lukacs distinguished closed epic culture from the god-abandoned novel — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 263

Broader Connections

• Lukacs distinguished closed epic culture from the god-abandoned novel #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 263