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Exotic Moscow Under Western Eyes

By Irene Masing-Delic

Book information

Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Year
2009
ISBN
1934843407, 9781934843406
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
769 kB (787193 bytes)
Series
Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century
Pages
264\264
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-08-11 19:28:20

Description

This collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gor kii, Pasternak and Nabokov represents diverse voices but is also unified. One invariant is the recurring distinction between culture and civilization and the vision of Russia as the bearer of culture because it is barbaric. Another stance advocates the synthesis of sense and sensibility and the vision of Apollo and Dionysus creating a civilized culture together. Those voices that delight in the artificiality of civilization are complemented by those apprehensive of the dangers inherent in barbarism. This collection thus adds new perspectives to the much-debated opposition of vital Russia and a declining West, offering novel interpretations of classics from Oblomov to Lolita and The Idiot to Doctor Zhivago.

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