Exotic Moscow Under Western Eyes

Exotic Moscow Under Western Eyes
by Irene Masing-Delic / / / PDF


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This collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gorkii, Pasternak and Nabokov presents a unified vision of diverse voices. Recurring themes in Masing-Delics work include the distinction between culture and civilization with Russia as the bearer of culture because it is barbaric. Another deals with the synthesis of sense and sensibility and the vision of Apollo and Dionysus creating a civilized culture together. Voices that delight in the artificiality of civilization are complemented by those apprehensive of the dangers of barbarism. Adding new perspectives to the much-debated opposition of vital Russia and a declining West, Masing-Delic offers novel interpretations of classics from Oblomov to Lolita and The Idiot to Doctor Zhivago.

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