Metaphysics or dialectics. In Hart, No. 4, 1930, pp. 180-195.

The article presents a critique of the school of literary scholars led by Valeriian Pereverzev from a Marxist philosophical standpoint. In particular, the author argues that for Pereverzev and his followers, the literary work appears as an abstraction, considered outside the process of historical development.

In contrast, the author substantiates an alternative view: elements of a work, drawn from life, are abstracted by the writer in the creative process, transformed into artistic images, and then return to life, acquiring an individualized and poetically shaped form.

In conclusion, the author maintains that Pereverzev’s school does not correspond to the Marxist method, since it represents a “mixture of metaphysics and dialectics.” Despite its materialist rather than idealist character, this materialism, in the author’s view, is outdated.