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December 01, 2007
On why the modern literary critic should be sent directly to the Gulag, etc.
From the introduction to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Penguin Literature edition:
- That the Creature [Frankenstein's Monster] is nameless, and denied any kind of individuality or recognition because he is a product of and belongs wholly to his Creator, signifies to one interpreter of Frankenstein, Franco Moretti, that the story is one born of 'the fear of bourgeois civilization'. Moretti's ingenious Marxist analysis sees Frankenstein as a 'disfigured wretch', symbol of the emerging industrial proletariat of the early nineteenth century. 'Between Frankenstein and the monster,' he says, 'there is a an ambivalent, dialectical relationship, the same as that which, according to Marx, connects capital with wage-labour'.
Posted by crandal at December 1, 2007 09:25 PM
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