Representing the Individual's Internal Struggle

How does a novel represent the individual's internal struggle? (About this list: a paragraph describing the thinking behind this list)

Primary Texts:

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre. (1847, England)

Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness. (1899, United Kingdom)

Edmundo Desnoes. *Memorias delSubdesarrollo. (1966, Cuba)   

James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artistas a Young Man. (1914, Ireland)

Carmen Laforet. Nada. (1944, Spain)

Thomas Mann. Death in Venice. (1912, Germany)   

Nabokov. Lolita. (1955, Russia)

Marcel Proust. *Swann's Way. (1913, France)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Confessions. (1782, France)

Stendhal. *Le rouge et le noir. (1830, France)   

Secondary Texts:

Dorrit Cohn. Transparent Minds.

Gérard Genette. “Les catégories durécit littéraire: Frontières du recit”.