This volume is an introduction to those works of Gyrgy Lukcs that have established him as a classic authority in literary criticism his preMarxist The History of the Evolution of Modern Drama 1911 still not available in English which Eva Corredor analyzes in the original Hungarian text and from which she provides extensive quotations in English his Kantian collection of essays Soul and Form 1910 his Hegelian The Theory of the Novel 1920 and his first Marxist work History and Class Consciousness 1923 which best characterizes the Hungarian philosophers problematic position between East and West. Lukcss Marxist theories are studied in the texts written during his exile in Stalinist Russia but published much later Studies in European Realism 1950 The Historical Novel 1955 and Realism in Our Time 1957. The approach to Lukcss work is both selective in the sense that the author chooses to introduce Lukcss literary theories with a focus on his views of French literature but also global in that she integrates these theories in the totality of his intellectual development. At each phase the true motive of Lukcss interest in literature is revealed as a pretext to study reality. The detailed biographical data uptodate critical bibliography and helpful index contribute to the overall value of this work as a challenging and rewarding source of information on Gyrgy Lukcss theories of literature.