Karl Marx and World Literature

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A landmark in comparative literature in Britain. George Steiner, Sunday Times

Very few men , said Bakunin, have read as much, and, it may be added, have read as intelligently, as M. Marx. S. S. Prawer's highly influential work explores how the world of imaginative literature poems, novels, plays infused and shaped Marx's writings, from his unpublished correspondence, to his pamphlets and major works. In exploring Marx's 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.