Hi lovelies!! Earlier this year I read Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney and, even though I know some of you lot have mixed feelings on her, I absolutely adored it. Something that really stood out to me was the way she weaves her generally Marxist worldviews into her writing. Especially with the character of Felix (+ how he clashes with Eileen)! Every line which described him working in that warehouse is highlighted and flagged in my copy haha. I just found the perspective super interesting, in particular her kind of anti-individualist ideas, since it's just not something I see very often in media.
Anyways, long way to say I'm a bit bored of hero's journey, american dream stuff, and if anyone has anything a bit different to that I'd love to hear it!! <33
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Anything by John Berger
China Mièville is a politically-active socialist, if you want his flavour of New Weird literature
I read *The Gadfly* by Ethel Voynich last year and thought it was fantastic. It’s not explicitly Marxist but as it is a novel about revolutionary spirit and how politics and personal life interact and often conflict, it was adopted as a piece of Marxist/communist fiction in revolutionary China and especially in the USSR where it was compulsory reading for a long time.
Joanna Russ’ We Who Are About To…is about a feminist and a communist who is among the survivors of a spaceship crash on an alien planet. Really a wonderful skewering of the way that story usually proceeds.
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Native Son or Black Boy by Richard Wright