| Essays on Realism Contributor(s): Lukacs, Georg (Author), Livingstone, Rodney (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0262620421 ISBN-13: 9780262620420 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1983 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy |
| Series: MIT Press Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9" (0.80 lbs) 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Originally published in the 1930s, these essays on realism, expressionism, and modernism in literature present Lukacs's side of the controversy among Marxist writers and critics now known as the Lukacs-Brecht debate. The book also includes an exchange of letters between Luk cs, writing in exile in the Soviet Union, and the German Communist novelist, Anna Seghers, in which they discuss realism, the European literary heritage, and the situation of the artist in capitalist culture. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lukacs, Georg: - Georg Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic.Livingstone, Rodney: - Rodney Livingstone, Reader in German at the University of Southampton, has edited and translated numerous works by Lukács, Theodor Adorno, and others. |