About this Book

Originally published in the 1930s, these essays on realism, expressionism, andmodernism in literature present Lukacs's side of the controversy among Marxist writers and criticsnow known as the Lukacs-Brecht debate. The book also includes an exchange of letters betweenLukács, writing in exile in the Soviet Union, and the German Communist novelist, AnnaSeghers, in which they discuss realism, the European literary heritage, and the situation of theartist in capitalist culture.