Marx Returns
{{short description|2018 novel by Jason Barke}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}}
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| author = Jason Barker
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| publisher = Zero Books
| release_date = 23 February 2018
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| pages = 352
| isbn = 978-1-78535-660-5
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Marx Returns is the debut novel by the British writer and filmmaker Jason Barker. It tells the story of the German philosopher Karl Marx and his struggle to complete his magnum opus Capital.{{cite web|url=http://www.zero-books.net/books/marx-returns|title=Marx Returns || Zero Books || Book Info|website=zero-books.net|access-date=2018-03-24}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/03/karl-marx-bicentenary-events-books-exhibitions|title=Marx bicentenary to be marked by exhibitions, books – and pub crawls | Books|newspaper=The Observer|date=3 February 2018 |access-date=2018-03-24 |last1=Quinn |first1=Ben }}
Reception
Reviewing Marx Returns in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Nina Power described it as "an imaginative, uplifting, and sometimes disturbing alternative history".{{Cite news |last=Power |first=Nina |author-link=Nina Power |date=16 March 2018 |title=Time and Freedom in Jason Barker's 'Marx Returns' |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/time-and-freedom-in-jason-barkers-marx-returns/ |access-date=2018-03-24 |work=Los Angeles Review of Books |language=en-US}} Writing for The Australian, Peter Beilharz declared that "The story that Barker tells is incredibly witty, clever, and creative. It is amusing and entertaining as well as instructive."{{Cite news|url= http://online.isentialink.com/theaustralian.com.au/2019/01/18/d5252a1f-ba45-48db-bb63-704407d18184.html|title=Humour and pathos on bumpy road to Das Kapital|last=Beilharz|first=Peter|date=19 January 2019|work=The Australian|access-date=2019-03-26}}
Barker discussed his novel at the British Library’s Karl Marx bicentennial event on 5 May 2018. Other invited speakers were Clive Coleman and Richard Bean, writers of the 2017 West End play Young Marx, along with "the team behind Raoul Peck’s film The Young Karl Marx".{{Cite news|url= https://www.bl.uk/events/karl-marx-imagined-and-the-young-karl-marx-screening|title=Karl Marx Imagined, and The Young Karl Marx screening|work=British Library Events|access-date=2018-03-24|language=en-US}} The event was moderated by Eleanor Marx biographer Rachel Holmes.
In an interview with Marx200, a German commemorative website set up by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Barker observes that "Marx Returns is not a philosophical novel" and is "an adventure story."{{Cite news|url= https://marx200.org/en/blog/marx-reloaded-marx-returns/|title=From Marx Reloaded to Marx Returns|last=Engster|first=Frank|date=8 February 2018|work=Marx200.org|access-date=2018-03-24|language=en-UK}}
References
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External links
- {{official website|https://web.archive.org/web/20190106164018/http://www.marxreturns.com/}} (2019 snapshot from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine)
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