Marxist Literary Theory in France: A Review of Lucien Goldmann’s and Pierre Macherey's Approaches

Abstract

            This paper makes a comprehensive explanation of Lucien Goldmann and Pierre Macherey’s contributions to the marxist literary theory, whose thought has circulated very poorly on the hispanic academic field. By confronting their original ideas with the principal thesis of the most classical and consolidated marxist aesthetics (the adornian and the luckasian), we observe the significant influence that they exercised in others schools of thought and, at the same time, how conditioned they were by the structuralism and poststructuralism.