3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
French novelist who wrote La Comédie Humaine — a 90+ volume interconnected series following French society from the Restoration through the July Monarchy — creating the most comprehensive fictional sociology of modern capitalism and social ambition.
Balzac's 1835 novel following Eugène de Rastignac — a provincial student at the Maison Vauquer boarding house who observes the ruin of Père Goriot (who gave everything to his daughters) and decides to conquer Paris — providing Girard with his prime example of mimetic triangular desire.
French novelist who wrote In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu) — the longest novel in world literature — a seven-volume meditation on memory, time, social class, and artistic vocation centered on the narrator's effort to recover the past through involuntary memory.