Lukács on The Destruction of Reason: before and after World War II

In a biographical interview titled Record of a Life that was undertaken by his Hungarian translator, István Eörsi Lukács speaks about the historical conditions under which The Destruction of Reason was written. He speaks about the manuscript that ‘was written during the war’. He also speaks about the work he was doing at the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow and at the journal Lit’erturnii Kritik, his arrest by the KGB and his incarceration for two months.