ON THE DETECTIVE STORY

On the Detective Story presents Eisensteins elaborate study, in four essays and fragments, of the use of dialectical thinking in th e creation of art and literature. Drawing on major works from Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Balzac, Gogol, Mayakovsky, Dostoevsky, and more, and ranging from folk tales to contemporary detective stories, it shows the keenly analytic quality of Eisensteins mind when it tu rned to questions of creative work.