MARX. SUE, REALISM 89 class position he was able to present an objectively correct portrayal of social relations.8 Lukacs's great contribution to Marxist aesthetics lies in elaborating on Engels's and Marx's insights into the victory or triumph of realism and showing that there was no necessary identity between the subjective convictions of a writer and the results of his literary production and analysing the methods through which realism had triumphed in the European literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His limitations lay in generalising from the results of nineteenth century realism novels and prescribing them for conscious literary production under changed conditions of class struggle in the anti-fascist period in the twentieth century. ANIL BHATTI* ^Associate Professor, Centre of German Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 8 Marx and Engels, On Literature and Art, ed Lee Baxandall and Stefan Moracoski, New York, 1974. p 113-114.