Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
life of others lived by proxy in Part I - The Ball as Poison, the opera in Part II, chs. 9-15 - Mediocrity Exposed, and the imagined lover in Part III, chs. 1-6 - Romanticism Becomes Accounting.
White Nights
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
the whole novels created in daydream (First Night), the dreamer's speech, the goddess Fantasy and the voluptuous poison (Second Night), the Chinese prince Nastenka dreamed of before the lodger's books (Nastenka's story, Second Night), the arguments that delight him while he consoles her (Third Night), her doubt about whether her love was not an illusion of the imagination (Fourth Night) and the last daydream, which projects only repetition (Morning).