Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 22:00:27 GMT
To: marxism-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu
From: hariette spierings <hariette-AT-easynet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Literature


>One outstanding book, which I've not seen mentioned yet is
>Trotsky's "Literature and Revolution". I think it was re-issued by
>Bookmarks (London, Chicago, Melbourne) 3 or 4 years ago.
>
>Yours
>
>Jorn Andersen
>ccc6639-AT-vip.cybercity.dk
>
>IS
>Denmark
>
>>Are there any good marxist books on literature?  Particular authors, laws of
>>literatures development, etc.
>
>
>
>Attachment Converted: D:\EASYNET\eudora\ReLitera



I havent't read Trostky on Literature - as possibly many Trotskyst have not
read Stalin on The Foundations of Leninism, nor the History of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union (b).  However I do not consider myself an expert
on literature, and therefore I won't give my opinion on what Trotsky has to
say on art.  However, I have read a book by a bloke called Lifstich or
something like that (who was reputedly a Trotsky symphatiser in the Soviet
Union) and found it very good.  Maybe the Trotskysts should stick to the
arts and leave Leninism and the History of the International Communist
Movement to the ones who know at least a little about that.  

I must confess that Liftish has much of interest and I managed to learn one
or two things from him to complement by poor first hand experience of the
arts and most of his ideas tallied well with those I had already formed in
the subject by obervation, study of the history of art and other associated
disciplines.  But then Liftisch maybe was not really a Trotskyst, but just
"another victim of Stalin", and, anyway, who knows what Trotsky himself has
to say about art.  

Maybe if the gentlemen Trotskysts were to illustrate us on that point we
could actually learn something from them.  It is no good to be only a
teacher, one must also learn to become a pupil. If some one would oblige, I
promise not to be such a prat as our Trotskyst "pupils" have proven to be on
the political and historical subjects.


Adolfo Olaechea





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