Essays on Thomas Mann

<p>These essays written over a number of decades are intended to throw light on the central problems of the work of Thomas Mann whom Lukács describes as 'the last great bourgeois writer'. <span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher aesthetician literary historian and critic. His literary criticism was influential in thinking about realism and about the novel as a literary genre. He served briefly as Hungary's Minister of Culture as part of the government of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(32 33 34 1)>Lukács hoped that socialist culture and its qualities would eventually overcome. </span></p><p></p>