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jacobin1949
28th November 2007, 02:13
I'd like to write some fiction based on Socialist Realism. I started with Aristotle's Poetics, then Victor Hugo's Preface to Cromwell, then Gorky's Soviet Literature and finally Mao's Yenan Talks 1945.

Literature and drama and poetry are all sciences no different from chemistry and physics.

jacobin1949
28th November 2007, 02:15
Writing tips

http://www.marxists.org/archive/gorky-maxi...-literature.htm (http://www.marxists.org/archive/gorky-maxim/1934/soviet-literature.htm)

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/...-3/mswv3_08.htm (http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-3/mswv3_08.htm)

http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.html

http://www.bartleby.com/39/40.html

jacobin1949
28th November 2007, 02:27
If you combine the narrative style of Hugo.
Plot structure of Aristotle.
Social criticism of Gorky.
And dialectic struggle of Mao.

You've got yourself a good play, drama, movie, script, poem, epic, ballad, song, novel, book, etc etc etc