Breaking free from death: the art of being a successful Russian writer
"Breaking Free from Death examines how Russian writers respond to the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs, and, ultimately, about their own inevitable finitude. What contributes to creative death are not just crippling diseases that make man defenseless in the face of d...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Boston
Academic Studies Press
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Tolstoj, Lev Nikolaevič 1828-1910
/ Čechov, Anton Pavlovič 1860-1904
/ Fear of life
/ Creativity
/ Loss
/ Finiteness
/ Death (Motif)
B Girard, René 1923-2015 |
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Tolstoy, Leo graf (1828-1910)
Criticism and interpretation
B Death in literature B Authors, Russian 19th century Attitudes B Death Psychological aspects B Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich (1860-1904) Criticism and interpretation |
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| Summary: | "Breaking Free from Death examines how Russian writers respond to the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs, and, ultimately, about their own inevitable finitude. What contributes to creative death are not just crippling diseases that make man defenseless in the face of death, and not just the arguably universal fear of death but, equally important, the innumerable impositions on the part of various outsiders. Many conflicts in the lives of Rylkova's subjects arose not from their opposition to the existing political regimes but from their interactions with like-minded and supporting intellectuals, friends, and relatives. The book describes the lives and choices that concrete individuals and-by extrapolation-their literary characters must face in order to preserve their singularity and integrity while attempting to achieve fame, greatness, and success"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes index |
| Physical Description: | xviii, 185 Seiten, Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 978-1-64469-266-0 978-1-64469-264-6 |
