The Irony Of The Ideal: Paradoxes Of Russian Literature (Ars Rossica)

Explores the most tormenting problems of Russian literature in provocative engagements with its major authors, from Pushkin, Gogol and Dostoevsky to Nabokov, Platonov and post-Soviet postmodernists. Focuses on the ironies and paradoxes that transform sublime ideals into their opposites and trigger the forces of evil and self-destruction.

• | Author: Mikhail Epstein
• | Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 30, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 440 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/LITERARY CRITICISM
• | ISBN-10: 1618116320
• | ISBN-13: 9781618116321