Studies in European Realism: A Sociological SUrvey of the Writings of Balzac, Stendhal, Zola, Tolstoy, Gorki and Others

Lukács, George; Edith Bone (transl.). Studies in European Realism: A Sociological SUrvey of the Writings of Balzac, Stendhal, Zola, Tolstoy, Gorki and Others. London: Hillway Publishing, 1950. First edition. Octavo. ix,277pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on spine in original price-clipped dust jacket. Lukács study of problems such as the relation of form and content, the nature of realism and its relationship to naturalism and romanticism, the relationship of the particular and the type, of the conscious intentions of the creative writer and his actual achievement; the problem of objective aesthetic judgments. Minor scuffing and staining on boards, tail of spine slightly bumped. Parts on head and tail of spine on inside of dj repaired with tape. Some staining, age wear and minor chipping on dj. Offsetting from dj on endpapers. Dust jacket in good-, binding in very good, interior in near fine condition. vg. Hardcover. (28787) $45