The Illusion; an Essay on Politics, Theatre, and the Novel |
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achieve action actors aesthetic Agitprop alienation anti-Enlightenment Aragon artistic attempt audience avant-garde becomes bourgeois bourgeoisie Brecht Camus Cervantes characters coherent committed writer Communist consciousness contemporary creative culture depiction dialectical theatre dialectical writing didactic Don Quixote drama dream dystopia emotion empathy Ernst Fischer existence fact fascism fiction freedom French Genet Goldmann hero Howard Fast human ideology illusion illusionist imagination insist intellectual Kafka L'Assommoir language Left literary literature logic Lukács Marx Marxist Marxist critics means ment mimesis modern modernist myth Nathalie Sarraute naturalistic nature never notion nouveau roman novel novelist offers philosophy play playwright political commitment proletarian question radical reader reality reason recognise revolution revolutionary Robbe-Grillet Sartre sense Shaw social socialist realism society Solzhenitsyn Soviet stage structuralists structure struggle style super-ego surrealists techniques Tel Quel theatrical theory thing tion tradition ture word