Writer and Critic: And Other EssaysIn the fall of 1960, during a three-month visit to Hungary, Arthur Kahn unsuccessfully asked his hosts to arrange a meeting with Gyorgy Lukacs, a persona non grata to the Communist regime. Kahn arranged to meet Lukacs on his own and proposed translating some Lukacs essays never before appearing in English. During the three years Kahn worked on the translations, he and Lukacs engaged in a voluminous correspondence, investigating Marxism as it applied to contemporary events like the Vietnam war. Extracts from this correspondence will be included in a forthcoming volume of Kahns' autobiography, The Education of a 20th Century Political Animal. |
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Art and Objective Truth | 25 |
Marx and Engels on Aesthetics | 61 |
The Ideal of the Harmonious Man in Bourgeois | 89 |
Healthy or Sick Art? | 103 |
Narrate or Describe? | 110 |
The Intellectual Physiognomy in Characterization | 149 |
The Writer and the Critic | 189 |
Pushkins Place in World Literature | 227 |
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