And just as the “populists” who went to the people were ready to do without clean linen and without a comb and without a toothbrush, so the intelligentsia was ready to sacrifice the “subtleties” of form in its art, in order to give the most direct and spontaneous expression to the sufferings and hopes of the oppressed.
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Igual que els populistes que “anaven al poble” estaven disposats a prescindir de la roba neta, del pentinador i del raspall de dents, la intel·liguèntsia estava disposada a sacrificar en el seu art les “subtileses” de la forma per a donar l’expressió més directa i immediata dels patiments i de les esperances dels oprimits.
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