"What he should do or be is, for him, only a pedagogical question, an expression of the fact that he has not yet come home… [H]e bears the stain of the distance that separates matter from substance, he will be cleansed by an immaterial soaring that will bring him closer to the substance; a long road lies before him, but within him there is no abyss."
— Lukács, “The Theory of the Novel”
