Art and objective truth.--Marx and Engels on aesthetics.--The ideal of the harmonious man in bourgeois aesthetics.--Healthy or sick art?--Narrate or describe?--The intellectual physiognomy in characterization.--The writer and the critic.--Pushkin's place in world literature
Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-354) and index The tragedy of Heinrich von Kleist [1936] -- Eichendorff [1940] -- The real Georg Büchner and his Fascist misrepresentation [1937] -- Heinrich Heine as national poet [1935] -- Gottfried Keller [1939] -- Wilhelm Raabe [1939] -- The later Fontane [1950]. - E