The book examines two centuries of Russian literary development and studies in major writers of the time the consequences of the clash between two irreconcilable cultures, the politically despotic Russian and the humanistic European. The author holds that the spiritual and creative results of this inner rift led from moral ambivalence to despair and ultimately to a nihilist vision of reality.
Constantin V. Ponomareff
1709 1910 Dark Literature Russian Side
«Professor Ponomareff has made a thorough-going study of Russian 18th- and 19th-century literature, and his analysis of the complex dual tradition in that body of writing is both stimulating and original.» (Dr. J. Richards, University of Exeter)
«....tremendously fascinating and a brilliant scholarly achievement....» (Prof. Dr. Habil, Helmut Dahm, German Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies Cologne, Federal Republic of Germany)
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