All That Is Solid Melts into Air
- All That Is Solid Melts into Air
"All That Is Solid Melts into Air" (ISBN 0-860-91785-1) is an academic text written by Marshall Berman between 1971 and 1981, and published in New York in 1982. The book examines social and economic modernization and its conflicting relationship with modernism. The title is a line from Karl Marx's "Communist Manifesto".
Berman uses Goethe's "Faust" as a literary interpretation of modernization, through the processes of dreaming, loving and developing. In the second section he uses Marxist texts to analyze the self-destructive nature of modernization. In the third section French poetry (especially Baudelaire) is used as model of modernist writing, followed by a selection of Russian literature (Pushkin, Biely, Gogol and Mandelstam) in the fourth section. The book concludes with some notes on modernism in New York during the 1960s and 1970s.
References
* Citation
last=Leonard
first=John
author-link=John Leonard
title=Books Of The Times (review)
newspaper=New York Times
year=1982
date=January 8, 1982
See also
*Modernism
*Post-Modernism
*Anti-Modernism
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