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A.V. Lunacharsky

On Literature and Art

(1965)

First published: Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965;
Translated: from the Russian by Avril Pyman and Fainna Glagoleva.
Edited: K.M. Cook.
Designed: Y. Ganushkin.
Compiled: A. Lebedev, Cand. (Phil. Sc.).
Transcribed: Eugene Hirschfeld.
Reformatted: 2026.

Table of Contents

From the Compiler

I

Theses on the Problems of Marxist Criticism, 1928

Chernyshevsky’s Ethics and Aesthetics: a Contemporary Evaluation, 1928

II

Alexander Pushkin, publ. 1937

Dostoyevsky’s “Plurality of Voices” (Re Bakhtin on Dostoyevsky), 1929

Taneyev and Scriabin, 1925

Alexander Blok, 1932

Maxim Gorky, 1932

Vladimir Mayakovsky, Innovator, 1931

III

Heroes of Action in Meditation, 1909

Bacon and the Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays, 1934

Jonathan Swift and A Tale of a Tub, 1930

Heine the Thinker, 1931

Richard Wagner, 1933

Marcel Proust, 1934

The Man Who Painted Happiness. In Viewing the Canvases of Renoir, 1933

George Bernard Shaw, 1931

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Updated on: 10 September 2026