Literature and Revolution, written by the founder and commander of the Red Army, Leon Trotsky, in and first published in , represents a compilation of essays that Trotsky drafted during the summers of and This book is a classic work of literary criticism from the Marxist standpoint/5(20). Leon Trotsky The Soviet Union after the revolution Art Books Art Marxist Classics. Page 1 of Originally published by Trotsky in these essays constitute a significant contribution to the then ongoing debate in the USSR over culture and art in a Workers State. It foreshadowed a later debate over the Stalinist conception of “Socialist Realism” in the later part of the decade. Trotsky’s Literature and Revolution, together with a number of other articles and speeches of the s, was concerned primarily to lay the basis for a Marxist response to the cultural problems raised by the Russian Revolution, and in particular to answer those who advocated a programme of ‘proletarian culture’. Here, in the turmoil of unprecedented social changes, Marxist theory and practice were put to .
Trotsky, Literature and Revolution (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, I). 3. Raymond Williams, for example, writes that 'Marxism, in many fields, and perhaps especially in cultural theory, has experienced at once a significant revival and a related openness and flexibility of theoretical development' - Marxism and Literature. Trotsky's title announces its vast and startling ambition. It is not "literature of revolution" or "literature about revolution." Indeed, Trotsky begins by declaring that since the Russian revolution "Art has revealed—as always at the beginning of a major epoch—terrifying helplessness" (Trotskii 32).Nor can Trotsky's argument be reduced to mere advocacy for a. Literature and Revolution. $ First published in , these essays by Trotsky illuminate the problem of literary creation in the first workers state. "Trotsky was perhaps the greatest representative in history of the Marxist school of literary criticism, which itself incorporated what was most farsighted in the aesthetic criticism.
Trotsky’s Literature and Revolution, together with a number of other articles and speeches of the s, was concerned primarily to lay the basis for a Marxist response to the cultural problems raised by the Russian Revolution, and in particular to answer those who advocated a programme of ‘proletarian culture’. Here, in the turmoil of unprecedented social changes, Marxist theory and practice were put to the decisive test. Leon Trotsky, from Literature and Revolution () 2 protest against a shallow realism had its historical justification, it was only because it made room for a new artistic recreating of life, for destruction and re construction on new pivots. [] In reply to criticisms against the “Lef,” which are often more insulting than convincing. Leon Trotsky was a leader of the Russian revolution in and is the author of My Life, The History of the Russian Revolution, and The Revolution Betrayed. Keach is Professor of English at Brown University. He is editor of Coleridge's Complete Poems (Penguin, ) and author of Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics ().
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