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Alexey I. Zherebin
Alexey I. Zherebin, DSc in Philology, Professor, Head of Department of Foreign Literature, Herzen State Pedagogical University, Moika Emb. 48, 191186 St. Petersburg, Russia.
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ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2216-6461
Abstract:
The article contains an analysis of the reception of Maxim Gorky’s work in the philosophical aesthetics of Georg Lukács, the largest representative of Neo-Marxism in the culture of the 20th century. The theory of socialist realism developed by Lukács in the 1930s relied heavily on his interpretation of Gorky’s works. In the articles “The Liberator” and “The Human Comedy of Pre-Revolutionary Russia,” Lukács emphasized Gorky’s key role in the history of contemporary art, seeing him, on one hand, as the heir to classical realism of the 19th century, and on the other, as the finalist of the avant-garde project.