Prosaics and Russian Literature Moral Mastery |
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| Author:
| Morson, Gary Saul |
| Series title: | Ars Rossika Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61811-176-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2015 |
| Publisher: | Academic Studies Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $99.00 |
Book Description:
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Gary Saul Morson describes Russian literature as a unique blend of unsettling philosophical ideas and formal experiments. Because critics have downplayed the strangeness of those ideas, his essays on Gogol, Turgenev, Chekhov, and Tolstoy contrast them with our own ways of thinking. Readers will, perhaps, be most provoked by Morson's recreation of the hostile dialogue between the Russian intelligentsia and great Russian writers.
Gary Saul Morson describes Russian literature as a unique blend of unsettling philosophical ideas and formal experiments. Because critics have downplayed the strangeness of those ideas, his essays on Gogol, Turgenev, Chekhov, and Tolstoy contrast them with our own ways of thinking. Readers will, perhaps, be most provoked by Morson's recreation of the hostile dialogue between the Russian intelligentsia and great Russian writers.