“It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.” RealIndividualFictionApproachBoundsAbstractDimensionsImaginarySomething Real Book:The paradox of history: Stendhal, Tolstoy, Pasternak, and others Source: The paradox of history: Stendhal, Tolstoy, Pasternak, and others