Marx Returns
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| Author | Jason Barker |
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| Illustrator | Kerstin Hille |
| Cover artist | Jason Barker and Eugen Slavik |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Zero Books |
Publication date | 23 February 2018 |
| Media type | Print (paperback) and ebook |
| Pages | 352 |
| ISBN | 978-1-78535-660-5 |
Marx Returns is the debut novel by the British writer and filmmaker Jason Barker. It tells the story of the German philosopher Karl Marx and his struggle to complete his magnum opus Capital.[1][2]
Reception
Reviewing Marx Returns in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Nina Power described it as "an imaginative, uplifting, and sometimes disturbing alternative history";[3] according to the philosopher Ray Brassier, the novel is "Curious, funny, perplexing, and irreverent—an inspired divagation that casts unexpected light on Marx's thought."[1]
Barker discussed his novel at the British Library’s Karl Marx bicentennial event on 5 May 2018. Other invited speakers were Clive Coleman and Richard Bean, writers of the 2017 West End play Young Marx, along with "the team behind Raoul Peck’s film The Young Karl Marx".[4] The event was moderated by Eleanor Marx biographer Rachel Holmes.
In an interview with Marx200, a German commemorative website set up by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Barker observes that "Marx Returns is not a philosophical novel" and is "an adventure story."[5]
References
- 1 2 "Marx Returns || Zero Books || Book Info". zero-books.net. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
- ↑ "Marx bicentenary to be marked by exhibitions, books – and pub crawls | Books". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
- ↑ Power, Nina (16 March 2018). "Time and Freedom in Jason Barker's 'Marx Returns'". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
- ↑ "Karl Marx Imagined, and The Young Karl Marx screening". British Library Events. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
- ↑ Engster, Frank (8 February 2018). "From Marx Reloaded to Marx Returns". Marx200.org. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
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