num_pages: 458
description: PUBLISHED IN PAPERBACK BY THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1978. 446 PAGES. "ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS ABOUT MARX YET WRITTEN IN ENGLISH." “Very few men,” said Bakunin, “have read as much, and, it may be added, have read as intelligently, as M. Marx.” S. S. Prawer’s highly influential work explores how the world of imaginative literature—poems, novels, plays—infused and shaped Marx’s writings, from his unpublished correspondence, to his pamphlets and major works. In exploring Marx’s use of literary texts, from Aeschylus to Balzac, and the central role of art and literature in the development of his critical vision, Karl Marx and World Literature is a forensic masterpiece of critical analysis.
language: English
title: Karl Marx and World Literature
titlecomplete: Karl Marx and World Literature
genres: Philosophy, Biography, Literature, Nonfiction, History, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 33
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize
publisher: Oxford Univ Pr