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Title: The Theory of the Novel by Georg Lukacs ISBN: 0-262-62027-8 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 1974 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: German Romanticism melds into Western Marxism
Comment: In this pre-marxist work of the Young Lukács, he takes advantege of the German Romantic myth of the Homeric epic as the hallmark of a supposedly "unalienated" civilization, where the individual was his envinronment and had no need to develop the kind of alienated, subjective self-consciousness we find in the bourgeois XIXth Century novel. Of course this is a modern myth, based on a very selective reading of Homer's epic - which already betrayed a clear consciousness of the divide existing between the Human and the Divine, as well as of a further divide between the mythical Heroic age and the everyday realities of an archaic class society. Neverthless, this modern myth came to form the core of Lukács' lifelong research programme - the study of alienation, which came to form much of the best research of Western Marxism (after reading Lukács'work one can not imagine Adorno and Horkheimer's _Dialectic of the Enlightnment_ being written without Lukács' starting stone). A must-read, therefore, for anyone interested in Western Marxism in general, as well as Lukács and the Frankfurt School in particular.
Rating: 5
Summary: The epic and the novel
Comment: The "Theory of the Novel" (1916) is the major work of Lukacs' pre-Marxist period. It is extremely useful both as a kind of document of the feverish intellectual atmosphere of pre-WW I Europe and as one of the underground classics (together with his "History and Class Consciousness" (1923)) that influenced what was later to become the Western Marxism of the Frankfurt School. Lukacs' pre-Marxist prose style, comparable to that of his friend Ernst Bloch's, may seem excessively romantic at times but the overall effect is that theory seems to come alive as the expression of a living human being undergoing an intense personal crisis. The first part of the book discusses the rise of the crisis of interpretation that is represented by the novel as a literary form when it is placed in contrast to the fullness of meaning perceivable in the earlier epic, the form which the novel presumably replaced. Lukacs' discussion of the fundamental dichotomy tearing apart at European civilization from within parallels kindred works such as Nietszches' "The Birth of Tragedy" (with its Apollonian/Dionysian schema) and Toennies' classic work of sociology "Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft." Also instructive to the student of literature would be a comparison of Lukacs' model with that of Auerbach's "Mimesis" and Bakhtin's contrast of the epic and the novel. The second part of this book is an application of this binaristic framework to novels by Cervantes, Balzac, Flaubert, Goethe, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. While this whole second part is incredibly rich in insights, Lukacs' application of the Bergsonian notion of time as duree to his study of Flaubert's "L'Education sentimentale" is particularly unforgettable. There, he writes: "Time is the resistance of the organic."
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Title: The Historical Novel by Georg Lukacs ISBN: 0803279108 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1983 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Political Unconscious by Fredric Jameson ISBN: 080149222X Publisher: Cornell University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1982 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Dialogic Imagination : Four Essays (University of Texas Press Slavic Series) by M.M. Bakhtin, Michael Holquist, Vadim Liapunov, Kenneth Brostrom ISBN: 029271534X Publisher: University of Texas Press Pub. Date: 1982 List Price(USD): $17.44 |
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Title: History and Class Consciousness by Gyorgy Lukacs ISBN: 0262620200 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 15 November, 1972 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: S/Z: An Essay by Roland Barthes, Richard Miller ISBN: 0374521670 Publisher: Hill and Wang Pub. Date: 01 January, 1975 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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