Essays on realism
By: Georg Lukács ; edited and introduced by Rodney Livingstone ; translated by David Fernbach.
Contributors: Livingstone, Rodney.
Edition: 1st MIT Press ed.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Realism in literature
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 Lukács, 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translation of: Essays über Realismus.