Scientific Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Literature - Modern
Literature, University of Balochistan (English Literature), course:
Literature, language: English, abstract: This research paper intends to
trace the origin and development of the mature proletarian revolutionary
novel. The mature revolutionary proletarian novels will be discussed and
highlighted in this study in terms of Marxist hermeneutics. This new
literary kind did not come into being prior to the imperialist era
because the socioeconomic requirements for this literary genre were
non-existent and the proletarian movement did not enter into its
decisive historical stage of development. This new genre of the novel
appeared simultaneously in the works of Robert Tressell, Martin Anderson
Nexo, Upton Sinclair and Maxim Gorky in the beginning of the twentieth
century. In this era of imperialism, the proletarian novel came into
existence, when the socio-historical ethos brought the proletarian
movement into being as well as helped to organise and develop it on
international level. At the end of this analytical and comparative study
of them, the noticeable point is that the proletarian novels of that
period share astonishing similarities with one another. Applying Marxist
literary hermeneutics to the art of novel writing of the famous
proletarian novelists, this research paper will try to introduce new
portrait of the personages of the novels of these proletarian novelists
in an innovative perspective.
