A sociologia da literatura de Lucien Goldmann

Abstract

LUCIEN Goldmann's literary studies fall into two distinct phases. In the first, relying mainly on contributions of the young Lukács (Soul and form and The theory of the novel), Goldmann sought to establish a homology between the novelistic form and social life. Moreover, falling back on History and class-consciousness, he sought to give a historicist and dialectical treatment to the youthful texts of the Hungarian thinker by interpreting literature as an articulate expression of the "views of the world" held by various classes and social groups. In the second phase, marked by pessimism and the influence of structuralist ideas, then in vogue, Goldmann's essays ceased to seek mediations between the written work and social life. Taken by surprise by the maelstrom of 1968, Goldmann engaged himself in a self-critical movement, interrupted by his premature death in 1970.