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Terry Eagleton · Be like the Silkworm: Marx’s Style · LRB 29 June 2023

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Unlike most realists, Marx does not see art as precious because it reflects reality. On the contrary, it is most...

Vol. 45 No. 13 · 29 June 2023 Be like the Silkworm Terry Eagleton Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share Email Print 2693 words Marx’s Literary Style by Ludovico Silva , translated by Paco Brito Núñez . Verso, 104 pp., £14.99, January, 978 1 83976 553 7 Show More Show More W orking ​ on Capital in the British Museum, plagued by creditors and carbuncles, Karl Marx complained not only that nobody had ever written so much about money and had so little of it, but that 'this economic crap' was keeping him from writing his big book on Balzac. His work is studded with allusions to Homer

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