The Legacy of Expressionism: On the Discussion in Das Wort, Moscow, 1937/38
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Expressionism, Socialist Realism, Exile, Georg Lukács, Ernst Bloch, Anna Seghers, Bertolt Brecht
Abstract
The issue of September 1937 of Das Wort, edited by the German intellectuals in exile in Moscow, initiates a debate on the legacy of expressionism marked by the political context before World War II. The discussion is declared closed in the issue of July 1938 anathematizing expressionism and advocating, more than an aesthetic concept, a model of realism subjugated to the official communist doctrine. The contributions of Ernst Bloch and Georg Lukács are analysed and contrasted in this paper, as well as those of expressionist authors like Rudolf Leonhard or Herwarth Walden and members of the League of Proletarian-Revolutionary Writers such as Werner Ilberg or Franz Leschnitzer among others. The immediate reactions of Anna Seghers and Bertolt Brecht, not published in Das Wort, will finally be discussed.Downloads
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Vilar M. L. (2011). The Legacy of Expressionism: On the Discussion in Das Wort, Moscow, 1937/38. Revista de Filología Alemana, 19, 189-205. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RFAL/article/view/37061
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