Facts about Psychological Novel
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Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is widely considered a landmark psychological novel for its exhaustive exploration of memory, perception, and subjective experience.
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Samuel Richardson's Pamela, published in 1740, is often regarded as an early precursor to the psychological novel for its intense focus on the protagonist's inner emotional world.
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Stream of consciousness, a narrative technique closely associated with the psychological novel, was prominently used by Virginia Woolf and James Joyce in the early twentieth century.
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Dostoevsky's novels, including Crime and Punishment, are frequently cited as foundational works of the psychological novel genre.
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The psychological novel focuses on the inner life, motivations, and mental states of characters rather than primarily on external plot events.