Abstract

A Note on Literary Criticism

This article presents the author's views on literary criticism. Proletarian literature may be defined as creative literature written by a member of the industrial proletariat without regard to his political orientation, as creative writing that deals with some phase of the life of the industrial proletariat, or as creative writing that by reason of the author's point of view or his actual use of the material is concerned with the life, the problems, or the attitudes of that segment of the proletariat which is class conscious. No matter which of these definitions one utilizes, the fact remains that they do not become categories of value, and that they do not constitute an a priori basis for the critical destruction of works that will not fit easily into these categories.