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THE IRONY OF THE IDEAL
PARADOXES OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE |
| By: |
Mikhail Epstein |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£98.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1618116320 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781618116321 |
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| Publisher: |
ACADEMIC STUDIES PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 August, 2017 |
| Series: |
Ars Rossica |
| Pages: |
440 |
| Description: |
Explores the major paradoxes of Russian literature as a manifestation of both tragic and ironic contradictions of human nature and national character. Russian literature, from Pushkin and Gogol to Chekhov, Nabokov and to postmodernist writers, is studied as a holistic text that plays on the reversal of such opposites as being and nothingness, reality and simulation, and rationality and absurdity. |
| Synopsis: |
This book explores the major paradoxes of Russian literature as a manifestation of both tragic and ironic contradictions of human nature and national character. Russian literature, from Pushkin and Gogol to Chekhov, Nabokov and to postmodernist writers, is studied as a holistic text that plays on the reversal of such opposites as being and nothingness, reality and simulation, and rationality and absurdity. The glorification of Mother Russia exposes her character as a witch; a little man is transformed into a Christ figure; consistent rationality betrays its inherent madness, and extreme verbosity produces the effect of silence. The greatest Russian writers were masters of spiritual selfaEURO"denial and artistic selfaEURO"destruction, which explains many paradoxes and unpredictable twists of Russian history up to our time. |
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US |
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Academic Studies Press |
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