Abstract: Whereas in the 1930s Stalinist authority imposed the dogma of Socialist realism, Lukács—in the context of the difficult conditions arising from his residing in the Soviet Union—unequivocally expressed a real rejection of a bland descriptive art, which in his analysis was “an insurmounted consequence of capitalism.” This article discussed the Lukácsian conception of “grand realism,” the aim of which is to represent “man in his multifaceted relationship with reality.”
