The novel and the people / by Ralph Fox.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY: International Publishers, 1937.Description: 172 pages ; 19 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN 3344 .F6 1937
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Contents:
I. Introduction -- II. Marxism and literature -- III. Truth and reality -- IV. The novel and reality -- V. The novel as epic -- VI. The Victorian retreat -- VII. The Prometheans -- VIII. Death of the hero -- IX. Socialist realism -- X. Man alive -- XI. The lost art of prose -- XII. The cultural heritage.
Summary: "This essay makes no pretension to deal with the whole vast field of the relation between art and life. It has a more limited aim, to examine the present position of the English novel, to try to understand the crisis of ideas which has destroyed the foundation on which the novel seemed once to rest so securely, and to see what is its future [...] It is the aim of this essay to show that the future of the English novel and therefore the solution to the problems which vex the English novelist lies precisely in Marxism with its artistic formula of a 'socialist realism' which shall unite and re-vitalise the forces of the Left in literature." -- from the introduction.
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BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks PN 3344 .F6 1937 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan NPML20120012

Includes one appendix: "Maxim Gorki: A speech on the relation of politics and literature."

I. Introduction -- II. Marxism and literature -- III. Truth and reality -- IV. The novel and reality -- V. The novel as epic -- VI. The Victorian retreat -- VII. The Prometheans -- VIII. Death of the hero -- IX. Socialist realism -- X. Man alive -- XI. The lost art of prose -- XII. The cultural heritage.

"This essay makes no pretension to deal with the whole vast field of the relation between art and life. It has a more limited aim, to examine the present position of the English novel, to try to understand the crisis of ideas which has destroyed the foundation on which the novel seemed once to rest so securely, and to see what is its future [...] It is the aim of this essay to show that the future of the English novel and therefore the solution to the problems which vex the English novelist lies precisely in Marxism with its artistic formula of a 'socialist realism' which shall unite and re-vitalise the forces of the Left in literature." -- from the introduction.

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