entitled Sketch for a Marxist Interpretation of Literature (1937), in which he denounced his own style of "literary allegories and fancies" and pronounced that unless a writer "has in his everyday life taken the side of the workers, he cannot, however talented he might be, write a good book, cannot tell the truth about reality." It was a cry in favour of the Soviet realist style of writing--a style as far removed from Upward's own as can be imagined. The following year Upward published a short novel, Journey to the Border, which illustrated his theme and which Stephen Spender considered "contains some of the most beautiful prose poems of the century".
from Telegraph: Edward Upward
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