Are there any good Marxist/communist novel in the second half of the 20th century or contemporary?
>>24687919Oscar Wilde - The Soul of Man Under Socialism
>>24688161I was asking for novels in late 20th century and on, but I’ll let it count.Thank you.
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>>24687919East of Eden, grapes of wrath?Wtf even is a "Marxist - communist" novel? Is it about how the production resources belong to the sexual workers?
>>24688270What novels did e.g. the French structuralists or Althusser-school guys read. You know like communist worldview, second half of 20th century, novel. Those guys must have read stuff besides theory. Just as an example.
>>24688336class-struggle is a recurring aspect of alot of 19th century French novels - to name a few; Zola's are a strong example (Germinal is the apogee here) another is Jules Vallès nightmarish autobiographical trilogy - imbued with a strong hatred of the bourgeois which climaxes in the author mounting the barricades of the Paris Commune to take his shot at 'barrack and bivouac, saber and musket, mustache and uniform' (only the first book has been translated into English - 'The Child' - as far as i am aware)
>>24688336Althusser is a joke from a marxist pov. Structuralists undermined the radicality of marx.There are no communist novel in the 2nd half of the 20th. Lukacs socialist realism is dumb. ultimately Adorno's aesthetics is more relevant
So as a non communist wandering into this thread, I take it that there aren't really and good communist books past the 1940s, 50s at most?
