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unusual facts about Proletarian literature


Helmer Grundström

Grundström was deeply associated with the Swedish workers’ movement and is characterized as a proletarian author.


Natsuo Kirino

In addition to comparisons with hardboiled crime fiction, Kirino's work has been compared with horror fiction (the gruesome dismemberment scenes in Out, for example) and proletarian literature such as Kanikōsen.


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Eugène Dabit

He was part of the group "proletarian literature" and had a great success for his short story collection Hôtel du Nord which won the du Prix du roman populiste and was filmed in 1938 by Marcel Carné.