Foolishness has long occupied a prominent place in Russian culture, touching on key questions of national, spiritual, and intellectual identity. Combining close readings with a contextual framework, this book offers a wide-ranging consideration of the causes and consequences of modern Russian literature's enduring quest for wisdom through folly.
Foolishness has long occupied a prominent place in Russian culture, touching on key questions of national, spiritual, and intellectual identity. Combining close readings with a contextual framework, this book offers a wide-ranging consideration of the causes and consequences of modern Russian literature's enduring quest for wisdom through folly.
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Persisting in Folly: Russian Writers in Search of Wisdom, 1963-2013
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Persisting in Folly: Russian Writers in Search of Wisdom, 1963-2013
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9783039119677 |
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Publisher: | Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
Publication date: | 02/28/2017 |
Series: | Russian Transformations: Literature, Culture and Ideas , #6 |
Pages: | 408 |
Product dimensions: | 5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d) |