Art for the End Times: Sally Rooney and the socialist novel
\ufeff\ufeffThe best-selling and (mostly) critically acclaimed Irish novelist Sally Rooney has sometimes come under fire for not\u2014despite her professed personal left-leaning politics\u2014writing \u201cMarxist\u201d novels. But what does a Marxist novel look like? Is the novel form itself inherently bourgeois? In this episode of \ufeffArt for the End Times\ufeff, Lyta Gold sits down with writer and McGill University PhD candidate Richard Joseph to discuss Rooneymania, love stories, the limitations of the realist novel, and what exactly we are asking of writers when we ask them to tell \u201cMarxist\u201d stories.
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Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/lets-talk-about-sally-rooney-what-makes-a-novel-socialist
Richard Joseph, \ufeffLA Review of Books, \ufeff"Everyone's a Critic": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/everyones-a-critic/\ufeff
Pre-Production/Studio: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: Brent Tomchik
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