Lukacs as Interpreter of German Culture

Anchor, Robert

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“…With a work such as "Revolt of the fishermen of Santa Barbara" (1928), she accepted the injunction of the BPRS that literature give workers stories about labour struggle, but her fishermen fail to overthrow the power of their employers and the strike leader, while inspirational, is too flawed to be an unequivocal socialist hero. She represented society as a panorama rather than as exemplified in the sort of typical individual that Lukács asked for (Anchor 1980). In this respect, as much as she learned from the social tableau presented by Balzac, she was likewise attending to the modernist experiments of John Dos Passos.…”

Section: Seghers's Anti-fascist Fictionsmentioning

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In Transit: Placelessness and the Absurd in the Writings of Anna Seghers

Kearns

2019

GeoHumanities

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The structure of feeling that has been called the absurd suggests a placeless and irrational world. Yet such a structure of feeling is sometimes produced in response to quite a specific context. This essay considers the way absurdity arises and is treated within Anna Seghers's Transit, a novel about the plight of refugees from Nazi Germany trying to leave unoccupied France after the signing of the Armistice between France and Germany in June 1940. The essay explores the treatment of space and time in the novel and suggests that there is a significant distinction between absurdity as resignation and absurdity as dissent. The essay also claims that absurdity is explicitly countered in the novel in the pursuit of a politics of responsibility and a resistance in solidarity.

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Section: Seghers's Anti-fascist Fictionsmentioning

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In Transit: Placelessness and the Absurd in the Writings of Anna Seghers

Kearns

2019

GeoHumanities

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Between empiricism and intellectualism

Carman¹

2008

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What About Realism? Alberto Blest Gana, Georg Lukács, and Their Chilean Readers

Patruno

2021

Open Cultural Studies

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In this article, I analyse Georg Lukács’s theories of realism in relation to Alberto Blest Gana’s work. For this purpose, I explore two essays that have greatly contributed to locating the Chilean author’s novels within the realm of literary realism. The texts chosen for my study are Jaime Concha’s prologue to the Martín Rivas edition by the Ayacucho Library and Ricardo A. Latcham’s essay “Blest Gana y la novela realista” [Blest Gana and the Realist Novel]. Concha and Latcham find appropriate categories for the interpretation of Blest Gana’s work in Lukács’s essays. In their readings, they accurately apply notions such as the selective principle or the typology of characters. However, while using those insights as a shared critical platform, they arrive at different interpretations of what is meant by realism. The article elucidates the role played by Concha and Latcham in the Chilean intellectual field and shows how literary genealogies inform their critical projects.

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Lukacs as Interpreter of German Culture

Cited by 3 publications

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In Transit: Placelessness and the Absurd in the Writings of Anna Seghers

In Transit: Placelessness and the Absurd in the Writings of Anna Seghers

Between empiricism and intellectualism

What About Realism? Alberto Blest Gana, Georg Lukács, and Their Chilean Readers

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