The Irony of the Ideal : Paradoxes of Russian Literature PDF
by Mikhail Epstein
Part of the Ars Rossica series
Description
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 self-denial and artistic self-destruction, which explains many paradoxes and unpredictable twists of Russian history up to our time.
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- Pages:440 pages
- Publisher:Academic Studies Press
- Publication Date:30/09/2017
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:440 pages
- Publisher:Academic Studies Press
- Publication Date:30/09/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781618116338