Communism’s Man of Letters
J.P. Stern, 26 September 1991
Georg Lukács: Life, Thought and Politics
by Arpad Kadarkay.
Blackwell, 538 pp., £45, June 1991,1 55786 114 5 Show More
by Arpad Kadarkay.
Blackwell, 538 pp., £45, June 1991,
“... her because he isn’t allowed to use a private telephone to call the police turns out to be Alexander Korda’s friend, the scriptwriter of The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Thief of Baghdad. And when Lukács feels guilty about the woman’s death, ‘he tries to translate his own inadequacies in love into a philosophy. Hence the Socratic irony and drama ... ”