And we must perform this historicization of the emergence of the reputedly non-historical not as an attempt to reduce all these hugely accomplished works of fiction to a unified (reactionary) movement and a forsaking of the novel’s historical mission (as Lukacs infamously did to modernism in The Destruction of Reason), but rather to deepen our understanding of the texts and of the authors as properly historical subjects, even as they themselves run for the pseudo-cover of abstraction.