These studies, of Kleist, Eichendorff, Büchner, Heine, Gottfried Keller, Wilhelm Raabe and Theodor Fontane, were written in the Soviet Russia in the thirties and forties at a time when Nazism was trying to take over the German cultural heritage. They are also works of inner immigration by a Western Marxist in Soviet exile.
The author (1885–1971), born in Hungary, was the outstanding Marxist literary critic of the 20th century.
‘Lukács’s most important and valuable work of criticism, the one to which – whatever becomes of Marxism as a method – readers of literature will return’
T. J. Reed

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