Juri Nummelin wrote:
I believe this is just what the Marxist theorists meant when
they said that this kind of gloomy, pessimistic literature -
or pessimism and nihilism themselves - cannot do good for the
mankind, but only makes the readers more passive toward the
society. It's essentially the same thing that Georg Lukacs
said about Franz Kafka.
************ Kafka was an absurdist, a position antithetic to
Marxism, which declares specific knowledge of where history
is going. The Frankfurt school despised the pulps and the
hardboiled and noir genre as lowbrow capitalism.
miker
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