Novel of ideas

Brooding on my dilemma in Sex & Death, I came up with a tentative new strategy for its middle section that may work. It requires considerable research to pull off. I'll brood some more. Precious few examples of the novel of ideas in American lit -- Melville's forgotten masterpiece Pierre, or the Ambiguities may be the best. Entering grad school, this was my PhD thesis but some cad from the Univ of Michigan beat me to it. How hugely my life changed as a result!

Rereading Sartre's Nausea. Most of the tradition is in Europe.