Thoughts of György Lukács? I find Writer & Critic, specifically the essay Narrate or Describe? to be among the best essays on creative writing I've come across. Are there any genuine critics of him? Does all great literature have to concern the narration of the dynamics and action of men in history? What would he think of Pynchon? How does one write in a purely narrative form if we live in an age of the death of grand narratives and returning to such a style would be nothing more than pastiche and an exercise in naivety?
>>25186029I’ve read some of his theoretical work. Shrill and polemical like most Marxists.
>>25186036Yeah I don't read Marxists for political reasons, but I am very interested in his literary theory work
>>25186029He's probably the only great Marxist literary critic, he has serious insight. Benjamin is okay, I guess, but Eagleton, Jameson and all the rest are spiteful fucking dullards.
>>25186054Do you know of any critique against him from a literary angle? I want to find arguments against his view of narration (the Realist model) as opposed to the Naturalistic description based model a la Zola. I am unsure if the Realist model truly is the ultimate form or not because Pynchon and other guys seemingly destroy that theory
Hungarian leftism was thoroughly and incorrigibly reactionary because it was created by and most popular among the jewish bourgeoisie, as a conservative ideology against the chuddy lower classes. Just look at Lukács whose family was among the dozen wealthiest in the monarchy at the time.Good luck trying to find a pre-1945 self-avowed leftist from there who was neither jewish and of upper or upper-middle class origin.
