Editing Socialist realism (section)

=== Literature ===
[[Martin Andersen Nexø]] developed socialist realism in his own way. His creative method featured a combination of publicistic passion, a critical view of capitalist society, and a steadfast striving to bring reality into accord with socialist ideals. The novel ''Pelle, the Conqueror'' is considered to be a classic of socialist realism.{{citation needed|date=November 2012}} The novel ''Ditte, Daughter of Man'' had a working-class woman as its heroine. He battled against the enemies of socialism in the books ''Two Worlds'', and ''Hands Off!''.

[[Bruno Apitz]]'s novel ''[[Naked Among Wolves (novel)|Nackt unter Wölfen]]'', a story that culminates in the vivid description of the self-liberation of the detainees,<ref>{{Cite web |last=mdr.de |title=Bruno Apitz und sein Roman 'Nackt unter Wölfen' {{!}} MDR.DE |url=https://www.mdr.de/zeitreise/bruno-apitz-nackt-unter-woelfen100.html |access-date=2021-01-09 |website=www.mdr.de |language=de}}</ref> was deliberately chosen to take place on the same day as the formal opening of the Buchenwald Monument in September 1958.<ref name=":9" />

The novels of [[Louis Aragon]], such as ''The Real World'', depict the working class as a rising force of the nation. He published two books of documentary prose, ''The Communist Man''. In the collection of poems ''A Knife in the Heart Again'', Aragon criticizes the penetration of [[American imperialism]] into Europe. The novel ''The Holy Week'' depicts the artist's path toward the people against a broad social and historical background.{{Citation needed|date=May 2016}}

[[Maxim Gorky]]'s novel ''[[Mother (Gorky novel)|Mother]]'' (1906) is usually considered to have been the first socialist-realist novel.<ref>[[Andrei Sinyavsky]]. Maxim Gorky's ''Mother'' as the first Socrealist novel</ref> Gorky was also a major factor in the school's rapid rise, and his pamphlet, ''On Socialist Realism'', essentially lays out the needs of Soviet art. Other important works of literature include [[Fyodor Gladkov]]'s ''[[Cement (novel)|Cement]]'' (1925), [[Nikolai Ostrovsky]]'s ''[[How the Steel Was Tempered]]'' (1936) and [[Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy|Aleksey Tolstoy]]'s epic trilogy ''[[The Road to Calvary]]'' (1922–1941). [[Yury Krymov]]'s novel ''Tanker "Derbent"'' (1938) portrays Soviet merchant seafarers being transformed by the [[Stakhanovite movement]].

''Thol'', a novel by [[Daniel Selvaraj|D. Selvaraj]] in Tamil is a standing example of Marxist Realism in India. It won a literary award ([[List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Tamil|Sahithya Akademi]]) for the year 2012.<ref>{{cite web |title=Akademi Awards (1955-2020) |url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/awards/akademi%20samman_suchi.jsp |website=Sahitya Akademi: National Academy of Letters |access-date=June 25, 2021}}</ref>