The Intelligentsia Of Great Britain
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Book: Fair
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Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
From the sharp and polemical pen of Russian literary critic and Marxist intellectual Dmitri Mirsky comes The Intelligentsia of Great Britain, a penetrating and unapologetic critique of British intellectual life in the early twentieth century. Translated by Alec Brown, this work surveys the landscape of British writers, thinkers, and cultural figures — from H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw to T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence — dissecting their class allegiances, ideological contradictions, and what Mirsky argues is their fundamental failure to confront the realities of capitalism and social decay. Written from a committed Marxist-Leninist perspective, the work presents a systematic and often devastating indictment of the bourgeois intelligentsia, arguing that their artistic and intellectual output is inextricably bound to the interests of a declining ruling class. Mirsky's style is relentlessly analytical yet bracingly readable, combining the rigour of a trained literary scholar with the conviction of a political partisan — a combination that makes this book as provocative today as when it first appeared. For those who wish to understand how one of the twentieth century's most brilliant émigré critics viewed the English literary establishment, this rare volume offers a perspective unlike any other.
Author: Dmitri Mirsky
Format: Hardback
Published: 1935, Victor Gollancz Ltd
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
From the sharp and polemical pen of Russian literary critic and Marxist intellectual Dmitri Mirsky comes The Intelligentsia of Great Britain, a penetrating and unapologetic critique of British intellectual life in the early twentieth century. Translated by Alec Brown, this work surveys the landscape of British writers, thinkers, and cultural figures — from H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw to T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence — dissecting their class allegiances, ideological contradictions, and what Mirsky argues is their fundamental failure to confront the realities of capitalism and social decay. Written from a committed Marxist-Leninist perspective, the work presents a systematic and often devastating indictment of the bourgeois intelligentsia, arguing that their artistic and intellectual output is inextricably bound to the interests of a declining ruling class. Mirsky's style is relentlessly analytical yet bracingly readable, combining the rigour of a trained literary scholar with the conviction of a political partisan — a combination that makes this book as provocative today as when it first appeared. For those who wish to understand how one of the twentieth century's most brilliant émigré critics viewed the English literary establishment, this rare volume offers a perspective unlike any other.