However, as far as Lukács’ commitment to realism reflects the demand that works of art should present a totality of meaning that is not alien to the life of individuals, but rather overcomes the alienation they suffer from in everyday life, it expresses (even in its most distorted versions) an intuition that sustains Lukács’ work from the beginning: the desire for an overcoming of the tension between human life and the objective social forms that constitute modern society.