The relationship between literature and politics says a lot about the conception that a regime has of the human being, and the history of the 20th century sheds light here on that of the 21st, which is being written before our eyes.
In the USSR, as we know, artistic creation was explicitly supposed to serve the revolution, writers being transformed into "engineers of souls" supposed to contribute to the making of the new man.
This aesthetic was that of social realism.
In many respects, this story continues today, before our eyes, even if the vocabulary is no longer the same.
Yesterday's socialist realism now responds to diversity realism, which wants them to serve the cause of multiculturalism, neo-feminism and diversity.
The “sensitivity reader”
It was with great perplexity that the Western world saw the emergence a few years ago of a new profession: that of "sensitivity reader".
The latter was invited to proofread the manuscripts that a publisher planned to publish to ensure that…
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