Georg Lukacs (1885-1971) is now recognized as one of the most
innovative and best-informed literary critics of the twentieth
century. Trained in the German philosophic tradition of Kant,
Hegel, and Marx, he escaped Nazi persecution by fleeing to the
Soviet Union in 1933. There he faced a new set of problems:
Stalinist dogmatism about literature and literary criticism.
Maneuvering between the obstacles of censorship, he wrote and
published his longest work of literary criticism, "The Historical
Novel," in 1937.
Beginning with the novels of Sir Walter Scott, "The Historical
Novel" documents the evolution of a genre that came to dominate
European fiction in the years after Napoleon. The novel had reached
a point at which it could be socially and politically critical as
well as psychologically insightful. Lukacs devotes his final
chapter to the anti-Nazi fiction of Germany and Austria.
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