The Theory of the Novel marks the transition of the Hungarian philosopher from Kant to Hegel and was Lukac's last great work before he turned to Marxism-Leninism.
Georg Lukacs (1885-1971) is now recognized as one of the most innovative and best-informed literary critics of the twentieth century. Trained in the German philosophic tradition of Kant, Hegel, and Marx, he escaped Nazi persecution by fleeing to the Soviet Union in 1933. There he faced a new set of problems: Stalinist dogmatism about literature ...
With a new introduction by Dr Gary Day, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK An argument for literary realism as opposed to modernism, contrasting Mann and Kafka. The book also argues for socialist as opposed to critical realism in literature.
In this book Georg Lukacs appears in another guise: as a literary historian in the tradition of Sainte-Beuve and Belinsky, offering an advanced introduction to one of the richest periods of European literature.
Georg Lukacs's most recent work of literary criticism, on the Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn, hails the Russian author as a major force in redirecting socialist realism toward the level it once occupied in the 1920s when Soviet writers portrayed the turbulent transition to socialist society. In the first essay Lukacs compares the ...
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.
Gyorgy Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established the intellectual's reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of Plato, Kierkegaard, Novalis, Sterne ...
One of the greatest Marxist theorists of his generation, author of among other classics History of the Development of Modern Drama (1911), History and Class Consciousness (1923) and The Historical Novel (1937), Georg Lukacs was a prolific writer of remarkably catholic, if moralistic, tastes. In the The Lukacs Reader, his biographer Arpad Kadarkay ...
A defender of western Marxism, Lukacs prepared this text in the 1920s in the face of staunch criticisms against Stalinism. It was thought to be lost until its retrieval from a Moscow archive late in the 20th century.
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The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
by
Professor M M Bakhtin, Michael Holquist (Editor), Vadim Liapunov (Editor)
