FICTION; LITERARY CRITICISM

CIRO ALEGRIA
BROAD AND ALIEN IS THE WORLD
A classic of its kind: a fictional recreation of life in poor indigenous agricultural communities in the Peruvian Andes from the turn of the century until the thirties. A book which captures the beliefs, traditions and customs of these people just as the base of their social organization was facing ultimate extinction. 223x142mm 470pp 1983
0 85036 282 2 pbk £12.95

WALTER BRIERLEY
SANDWICHMAN
Arthur Gardner, the Sandwichman of this novel, is a young Derbyshire miner who wants to better himself. His ambition strains his relationships with family, with workmates and with Nancy (the women he plans to marry). This edition has a twelve page introduction by Philip Gorski. The author was born in Derbyshire in 1900 and worked as a miner until 1931: he writes with power and subtlety, his book is compelling reading. He also wrote the best seller The Means Test Man. 192x125mm: xx+283pp: 1937/1990
0 85036 391 8 pbk £6.99

DOROTHY COWLIN
WINTER SOLSTICE
Alexandra’s contented life is shattered when she falls in love with female aviator, Iris Young. But hers was only a brittle harmony; underneath were symptoms of heterosexual tyranny and deprivation.
192x125mm 224pp 1991
0 85036 408 6 pbk £5.99

GEORG LUKÁCS
ESSAYS ON THOMAS MANN
These essays, written over a number of decades, are intended to throw light
on the central problems of the work of Thomas Mann whom Lukács describes as “the last great bourgeois writer”. Translated by Stanley Mitchell.
223x142mm 170pp 1964
0 85036 238 5 pbk £7.95

GEORG LUKÁCS
GOETHE AND HIS AGE
Written in the 1930s and 1940s, these essays discuss Goethe’s works, their role in German literature and the wider problems of the evolution of German culture and social thought. Translated by Robert Anchor.
223x142mm 260pp 1979
0 85036 239 3 pbk £8.95

GEORG LUKÁCS
THE HISTORICAL NOVEL
Studies of Scott, Goethe, Fenimore Cooper, Dickens, Manzoni, Tolstoy, and Mann. “One of the permanent classics of criticism.” Raymond Williams: The Listener. Translated by Hannah and Stanley Mitchell.
223x142mm 364pp 1962
0 85036 378 0 pbk £10.95
USA: University of Nebraska Press

GEORG LUKÁCS
MEANING OF CONTEMPORARY REALISM
An examination of three main trends in modern literature: the literature of the avant garde ( Kafka, Joyce, Becket, Faulkner); the socialist realists who portray an unreal Utopia (Sholokov); and the critical realists (Conrad, Mann, Shaw). In his view Critical Realism is not only the link with great literature of the past but also points to the future. Here character is not sacrificed to artistic pattern: and the human condition is understood dynamically in its historical context. “I know nothing more promising in contemporary literary theory.” Raymond Williams, The Listener. Translated by John and Necke Mander.
Contents, Preface to the English Edition (1962 ), Preface to the German Edition (1957), Introduction, The Ideology of Modernism, Franz Kafka or Thomas Mann?, Critical Realism and Socialist Realism, Index.
223x142mm 138pp 1963
0 85036 250 4 hbk £19.95
Reprinting in pbk 2003-2004 0 85036 250 4 pbk £10.95 est.

GEORG LUKÁCS
SOLZHENITSYN
Lukács hails Solzhenitsyn as the true heir to the socialist-realist writers of post-revolutionary Russia and as a major novelist on a world scale. In the first essay Lukács examines One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and shows how this novella fits into the tradition of classic literature from Homer onwards. In the second, larger section he discusses The First Circle and Cancer Ward and praises them more highly than any other twentieth-century writing. Translated by William David Graf. 223x142mm 88pp 1969
0 85036 143 5 hbk £9.95

GEORG LUKÁCS
SOUL AND FORM
This influential collection, first published in 1911, established Lukács as a critic. Here he considers the role of the critical essay and its relation to great aesthetics and reviewing philosophers and writers, Plato, Novalis, Kierkergaard, Olsen, Storm, Stefan George, Charles-Louis Phillipe, Beer-Hofman, Lawrence Sterne, Paul Ernst. Translated by Anna Bostock 223x142mm 138pp 176pp
REPRINTING Winter 2003-4
0 85036 251 2 pbk 10.95 est

GEORG LUKÁCS
STUDIES IN EUROPEAN REALISM
A sociological Survey of the Writings of Balzac, Stendhal, Zola, Tolstoy, Gorki and others. These essays celebrate the humanist tradition of European literature. Translated by Edith Bone.
223x142mm 278pp 1950: 1972
0 85036 211 3 pbk £8.95
USA Howard Fertig

GEORG LUKÁCS
THE THEORY OF THE NOVEL: A Historical-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature
Lukács is a thinker and critic widely appreciated in cultural and literary studies of the twentieth century. This book considers the nature and development of the novel and anticipates its development. It is an essay of prophetic vision, Lukács writes, “anyone who wants to become more intimately acquainted with the prehistory of the important ideologies of the [nineteen] twenties and thirties ...will be helped by a critical reading of this book. “ It begins with a comparison of the historic conditions that gave rise to the epic and the novel. In the age of the novel the once known unity between man and his world has been lost and the hero has become an estranged seeker of the meaning of existence. Later Lukács offers a typology of the novel based on whether the hero struggles for a realisation of a meaningful idea, or withdraws from all action. The balance of these extreme forms the third possibility, and each type is exemplified. The book is not a study of artistic technicalities, but of man, history and art tied closely in their development. It is written in a lyrical style well rendered by the translation. “ Library Journal Translated by Anna Bostock
Contents, Preface, The forms of great epic literature examined in relation to whether the civilisation of a time is an integrated or a problematic one integrated civilisations (Greece, Christianity), The problems of a historical philosophy of forms (principles, tragedy, epics), The epic and the novel, The inner form of the novel, The historico, philosophical conditioning of the novel, Attempt at a typology of the novel form, Abstract idealism (Don Quixote, Balzac, Pontappidan ), The romanticism of disillusionment, Attempted synthesis Wilhem Meister’s Years of Disillusionment (the problem, social community and literature, the novel of education and the romanticism of reality, Novalis, Goethe), Tolstoy and the attempt to go beyond social forms of life (and Dostoevsky), Index of names, Index of subjects.
214 x138mm 160pp reprinting Summer 2003
0 85036 236 9 pbk 10.95
USA: MIT Press

GEORG LUKÁCS
WRITER AND CRITIC: And Other Essays
“The work of art must … reflect correctly and in proper proportion all important factors objectively determining the area of life it represents. It must so reflect these that this area of life becomes comprehensible from within and from without, re-experiencable, that it appears as a totality of life.” Edited and translated by Arthur Kahn. 223x142mm 256pp 1978
Contents, Preface, Art and objective Truth, Marx and Engels on Aesthetics, The Ideal of the Harmonious Man in Bourgeois Aesthetics, Healthy or Sick Art?, Narrate or Describe?, The Intellectual Physiognomy in Characterization, The Writer and the Critic, Pushkin’s Place in World Literature.
REPRINTING Winter 2003-4
0 85036 237 7 pbk £14.95

MOTAGUE SLATER
ENGLISHMAN WITH SWORDS
A fictional journal written towards the end of the English Civil War in the years 1647-1649 by a clerk to General Fairfax.
192x 125mm 190pp 1991
0 85036 402 7 pbk £4.99