Theory of Literary Production

Pierre Macherey, one of the pioneers of the approach that sees literature and art as a production activity, establishes a theoretical framework in this study to show how ideology works in the field of literature, while different writers and works from Tolstoy to Borges, Jules Verne to Balzac, Defoe to Rousseau are presented. It discusses the basic problematics of literary production in the light of Macherey, who emphasizes the ideological content that the work mediates and represents and the objective production mechanism in which this content is embodied, against the subjectivist/impressionist view that perceives the literary work as a word and delusion devoid of its own object, is the most sophisticated Marxist theory has reached in literary criticism.
reveals one of the models.

“18. The fictional birth that the 19th century ideology was satisfied with is a missed birth: The whole society, along with the wreckage washed ashore, was given to Robinson like a seed. Because society is an attribute for him, a
It is a 'feature': it is impossible for him to rebuild this society as a whole.”

(From the Promotional Bulletin)