Literature at the End of History: Returning Politics to Culture

by Pankaj Mishra

On the politics of literature: how writers create the world

In The East Was Red Pankaj Mishra beautifully demonstrates, using examples from all over the world, an important and lately neglected truth: literature is inseparable from its social and political context. It is a mode of social enquiry.

Through a sequence of portraits, Mishra introduces us to writers and how life and literature informs their political evolution...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1839768436
• ISBN13: 9781839768439
• Release Date: January 2079
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.