...Glyn Salton-Cox Abstract Reading Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories (1935–39) through an important debate in the Marxist aesthetics of the period between Sergei Tretiakov and Georg Lukács, this article argues that Isherwood’s famous statement “I am a camera” should be reimagined...

... the same leadership as MORP had had (Mikhail Kol’tsov as head, Sergei Tretiakov as his deputy). For most of the 1930s commitment to the antifascist cause held the disparate writers together in one movement. Symptomatically, E. M. Forster, who was not a leftist, let alone a communist, headed the British...