Lukács’ understanding of alienation as a historical loss of totality and the consequent problem of form allows him to also formulate the kernel of a Utopian vision: the very form of the novel points to the possibility of a renewed relation between individual and world where meaning can again be found. Lukács sees this utopian dimension of modern novels expressed most clearly in Goethe’s “Wilhelm Meister”, Tolstoy and Dostoyevski.