1976
ISBN 0838716857
Many writers during the decade of the Depression were attracted to Marxism, although later a sizable number of the "converts" repudiated their faith in Communism. Professor Glicksberg here offers a cogent and convincing explanation in light of the historical situation at the time as to why the utopian ardor, the euphoria of commitment to the cause, gave way to the spiritually lacerating experience of disillusionment. Did each have to become a political propagandist even if this entailed the sacrifice of intellectual integrity and loss of creative freedom?
About the author:
Charles I. Glicksberg is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at Brooklyn College.
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