Karl Marx and World Literature
S.S. Prawer
Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Verso; 2 edition (4 July 2011)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1844677109
ISBN-13: 978-1844677108
Very few men, said Bakunin, have read as much, and, it may be added, have read
as intelligently, as M. Marx. S. S. Prawers highly influential work explores how
the world of imaginative literaturepoems, novels, playsinfused and shaped Marxs
writings, from his unpublished correspondence, to his pamphlets and major works.
In exploring Marxs use of literary texts, from Aeschylus to Balzac, and the
central role of art and literature in the development of his critical vision,
Karl Marx and World Literature is a forensic masterpiece of critical analysis.