1、This word document was downloaded from the website: http:/ please remain this link information when you reproduce , copy, or use it.word documentsTRACES OF MAGMAAn annotated bibliography of left literatureRolf KnightDraegerman Books, 1983Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaTraces of MagmaAn annotated
2、 bibliography of left literatureKnight, RolfCopyright 1983 Rolf KnightCanadian Cataloguing in Publication DataISBN 0-86491-034-71. Annotated bibliography2. Left wing literature, 20th century comparativeDraegerman BooksBurnaby, British Columbia, V5B 3J3, CanadaTable of ContentsIntroduction 5Canada, U
3、nited States of America, Australia / New Zealand 13Canada 13 United States of America 24 Australia and New Zealand 51Latin America and the Caribbean 57 Mexico 57 Central America 62Colombia 68Venezuela 70Ecuador 71Bolivia 74 Peru 76Chile 79Argentina 82Uruguay 85Paraguay 86 Brazil 87 Caribbean-Spanish
4、 speaking 91 Dominican Republic 91Puerto Rico 92Cuba 93Caribbean- Anglophone and Francophone 98Europe: Western 102Great Britain 102Ireland 114France 118 Spain 123 Portugal 131Italy 135Germany 140Austria 151Netherlands and Flanders 153Denmark 154Iceland 157Norway 159Sweden 161Finland 165 Europe: East
5、, Central and Balkans 169U.S.S.R .(former) 169Poland 185Czechoslovakia (former) 190 Hungary 195 Rumania 201Bulgaria 204Yugoslavia (former) 207Albania 210Greece 212 Near and Middle East, North Africa 217Turkey 217 Iran 222 Israel 225 Palestine 227 Lebanon, Syria, Iraq 230Egypt 233 North Africa and Su
6、dan 236 Sub-Saharan Africa 241Ethiopia and Somalia 241 Francophone Africa 244 Anglophone Africa 248 Union of South Africa 253 Mozambique and Angola 259 India and Southeast Asia 262India 262 Pakistan 274 Sri Lanka, Burma, Thai1and 275 Viet Nam 277 Malaya 279 Indonesia 281 Phi1ippines 284 East Asia 28
7、8 China 288Korea 296Japan 299 Bibliographic Sources 311Authors Index 330INTRODUCTIONThis is basically an annotated bibliography of left wing novels about the lives of working people during the 20th century. It includes some collections of poetry, short stories and drama as well as a smattering of no
8、n-fictional material such as oral and life histories, but mainly it is a compendium of novels. It includes more than 3,000 titles originally in some 50 languages by circa 1,500 authors from some 90 countries. It is not a survey limited to socialist realist and narrowly proletarian novels of the 1930
9、s, although many such titles are certainly included.Bibliographers do not normally attempt a compilation of works as diverse as those presented here. The main purpose of this compilation is to provide an introduction to leftwing fiction for general readers; it is intended for those who, for whatever
10、 reason, have become interested in what this literature has to say about events, forces and people throughout the world during the course of one long lifetime. It is intended for those who have only a vague notion of which authors and titles exist and where to begin.This bibliography adopts a broad
11、understanding of what constitutes a progressive or leftwing stance in the literature annotated. A programmatic definition, such as whether a book advances some seemingly correct political view or whether it serves the interests of the working class is impossibly malleable and untenable. I have cast
12、a wide net. Any work which entails a sympathetic and an honest account of working people is in itself distinguishable from most other writing. Broad ranging or highly circumscribed in focus, moulded in a variety of historic, political and literary forms, this writing entails demands for social justi
13、ce for the disinherited. Whether through reformist or more fundamental demands most of these works indict the workings of the capitalism and allied forms of exploitation, celebrating the struggles of individuals and groups against it. Whether through lyrical storytelling, bitter protest or subtle im
14、plication they propose a fundamental reordering of the ruling power over peoples lives. In all their variety they are, or once seemed to be, voices for the party of humanity.The themes found in the novels cited are almost as varied as the experiences of working people during the course of the centur
15、y. They portray the multiple forms and many faceted strictures of caste and class, as well as the strategies which people evolve to circumvent or oppose such exactions. They deal with the contending claims of new understandings and the pull of older values, they depict the bonds of narrow loyalties
16、but also widening allegiances which may broaden the horizons of once isolated people. They treat with the corrosive effects of social disenfranchisement but also with tenacious hope and the resurrection of struggles for social justice from the most unpromising of conditions. The themes deal with the
17、 costs of wars both just and unjust, with political militancy and quiescent cultural resistance. They picture the workings of social institutions in particular societies through the understandings and manifold responses of ordinary people enmeshed in them.As novels the works usually pursue the broad
18、er processes through the experiences and emotions of a relatively limited number of characters. While not always captured in the annotations, the themes of hardships and struggle are typically alloyed with accounts of private joys, of collective achievements and personal pride wrung from the most di
19、verse situations. This literature is not exclusively concerned with the themes of struggle, struggle, toil and trouble.There are inherent limitations which a bibliography such as this encounters. One must accept that it is impossible to provide anything like an exhaustive survey of left wing novels
20、on the scope dealt with. The somewhat subjective selection entailed is not purely arbitrary - I have attempted to sample the various themes, authors and traditions in the literature from different periods and countries. No single person would subscribe to all the contending views presented. However,
21、 this is not a survey of eminent authors and celebrated novels as such. Dont be surprised to find the work of some renowned writers and literary luminaries absent here. The absence of any particular work or author does not imply any derogation. As literature some of the material excluded may be grea
22、ter than some of the desperate chronicles which have found a place here.The fiction surveyed here includes the work of some of the greatest authors of the 20th century but it hardly needs saying that not all the items cited are works of great art -there are other reasons for their inclusion. One may
23、 have qualms about aspects of certain works and yet find them of value. In principle, each title should be considered on its own merits regardless of an authors reputation or anonymity or later political trajectory. All in all, many of the works presented here embody greater literary merit than we a
24、re usually led to believe.Different writers with their own particular passions and styles touch responsive chords in different readers. Given differing views and degrees of knowledge who is to say which treatment of a topic is most moving or illuminating for any particular reader. Users will find ce
25、rtain gaps in coverage here which ideally might be remedied. Only two things are sure about users responses: first, almost everyone will take umbrage that some of their favourite authors and works have been omitted while others they heartily dislike have been included and, second, most readers shoul
26、d discover a swath of fascinating material previously unknown to them. They should realize that it is not merely a question of what might have been added but rather which titles included one would delete in order to make space for additional entries. Everyone will have their own prime candidates for
27、 exclusion.The unabashedly documentary aspect of much of the material surveyed here is sometimes of as great an importance as the purely literary value of the books. Given this concern with social documentation, what is the reason for concentrating on novels and other fiction, forms often dismissed
28、by serious intellectuals? The contention here is that there is no simple distinction between the validity of objective accounts and that of some kinds of fiction. Many of these novels are based upon a firsthand knowledge and a grasp of the events and forces greater than that presented in scholarly a
29、ccounts. Often the fictional works are the only ones which deal with the everyday lives of ordinary people caught up in and acting to transform the particular conditions around them.Of equal importance, novels and other fictional work often capture peoples interest more effectively than do more scho
30、larly studies. Fiction can have a moving as well as an illuminating quality which engages the reader. One must admit that some scholarly work is as excitingly written as the best novels and that some allegedly realistic fictionvarious left wing novels among themmay be worse than useless as social ch
31、ronicles. But if the realm of literature should not be mistaken for actual history, neither should most textbook histories or media documentaries.The emphasis on novels rather than on other kinds of fictional literature derives from the premise that the novel is seemingly the most general and access
32、ible form of literature. The novel does appear to be a particularly suitable vehicle for social documentation; those stemming from other societies seem to survive translation better other forms of writing. More than any other format, novels are likely to be translated and potentially available in bo
33、okstores or libraries. A limitation is that the left literature of some countries and periods has only by exception survived a censorship of silence to enter sources accessible to the compiler. While I have made a special effort to locate English language editions of the works cited I have not hesit
34、ated to include seemingly untranslated items. Although the main readership of this bibliography will be those whose native language is English, I would presume that at least some multilingual readers will also peruse it. But there is a more fundamental reason for including works untranslated into En
35、glish. The rationale is that of any literary survey to introduce readers to the range of authors, titles and topics in the corpus of the literature discussed. Comparable surveys of national literatures are typically written for those unable to read the works in the original languages. Even if the ov
36、erwhelming majority of readers cannot peruse novels about Bombay textile workers in Marathi or accounts of the lives of Egyptian peasants in Arabic etc. this bibliography may provide a sample of the themes dealt with in the progressive literature of those peoples. In this regard it should have some
37、worth as an introductory survey regardless of which titles cited the user actually does read.Included here is a limited selection of poetry and drama where the author or the work is too important to go unmentioned. Even the most megalomaniac bibliographer should know better than to mess with poets o
38、r to imply that one is able to annotate their works. Yet in some countries poetry was/is so central to the progressive literary tradition that it would do violence to the picture not to mention it. The works of poets like Hugh MacDiarmid, Pablo Neruda, Jannis Ritsos, Nazim Hikmet and others just can
39、not be left out. Similarly so the smattering of drama listed here, ranging from a sampling of workers theatre pieces to the work of Bertold Brecht. They are the merest handful, only suggesting the richness of that genre. But the power of both drama and poetry depends on its presentation. Drama is me
40、ant to be seen and poetry is meant to be heard.The bibliography also contains a small number of non-fictional work such as oral history, the occasional memoir, examples of a genre once called reportage and yet more diverse items. Such accounts typically have a personal quality which gives them an ap
41、peal not dissimilar to novels. They are cited here when they touch on some topic of interest which would otherwise remain unmentioned. One format underrepresented is the short story. While volumes of collected stories are listed there are usually no entries of single stories, or indeed of any items
42、which appeared only in unbound folio form. This does to some extent distort the picture of left literature in certain countries where such work was long restricted to forms which could be accommodated in evanescent journals, union newspapers and so forth. The general exclusion of such material is la
43、rgely a question of accessibility. No matter how seminal or evocative a piece of writing, if it has not been issued in book form it is effectively unavailable for consideration.There is a marked disparity in the volume and the nature of work from the various countries dealt with. Expectably, more le
44、ft literature was produce in certain countries than in others. In some nations, such writing emerged only briefly while elsewhere there have been marked shifts in its nature over the past three generations. Needless to say, these differences do not stem merely from mercurial literary fashions but fl
45、ow, however distortedly, from the social and political realities in those countries at various times. Literature of course does not fully or exactly reflect the actual experiences of any particular nation or group. It is a selective mirror of the experiences, interests and perspectives of the extant
46、 authors. There can be some extraordinary gaps. For instance, the multi-generational experiences of African miners, dockers, factory workers and others are very rarely dealt with in novels by most African authors. Where I have found little in the way of working class literature I have tended to incl
47、ude certain titles whose concerns mainly reflect the aspirations of some reformist sector of the middle class, for better or worse.As might be expected, the predominant themes and topics of left wing novels vary by country and by historical period. For instance, the swath of books about the lives and stru
