German Realists in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)

The essays in this book - on Heinrich von Kleist, Joseph Eichendorff, Georg Buchner and Heinrich Heine, and on the novelists Gottfried Keller, Wilhelm Raabe and Theodor Fontane - were mostly written between 1936 and 1944, when Lukacs was in exile in Moscow. After the literary polemics of the earlier thirties, Lukacs increasingly turned to the literature he knew and loved best - the German classics and 19th century realists. His defence of realism against the crude simplicities of "socialist realism" and against all didactic literature, is implicit and occasionally explicit, throughout these studies. Lukacs appears in this volume as a literary historian, ready to make illuminating comparisons between Kleist and Schiller, Buchner and Shakespeare, Heine and Balzac, Keller and Tolstoy, Raabe and Dickens, or Fontane and Thackeray. He appears as a critic whose discussions and assessments of indivudual works, whether plays, novels, short stories or poems, are enlivened by the exploration of the relations betwen historical period, style and aesthetic form, which runs through all his literary work.

General

Imprint:	Libris
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 1993
Authors:	Georg Lukacs
Volume editors:	Rodney Livingstone
Introduction by:	Rodney Livingstone
Translators:	Jeremy Gaines • Paul Keast
Dimensions:	222 x 141 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	392
ISBN-13:	978-1-870352-60-4
Subtitles:	German
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
LSN:	1-870352-60-2
Barcode:	9781870352604

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