Rozanov
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Vasily Rozanov stands as one of the most provocative and enigmatic figures in Russian intellectual history, a writer whose radical subjectivity and philosophical audacity confounded critics and captivated readers in equal measure. In this incisive critical study, Renato Poggioli illuminates the life, thought, and literary legacy of this singular Russian thinker, charting his tortured relationship with Orthodox Christianity, his obsessions with sexuality and death, and his uniquely fragmented, aphoristic prose style that defied every conventional literary category of his era. Poggioli, one of the foremost scholars of Russian and European modernism, brings his characteristic rigour and elegance to bear on a writer who remained largely inaccessible to Western audiences. Part of the distinguished Studies in Modern European Literature and Thought series published by Bowes & Bowes, this compact yet authoritative volume argues for Rozanov's central importance to the development of modernist sensibility — a man who was simultaneously reactionary and revolutionary, devout and heretical. For anyone seeking to understand the turbulent spiritual and intellectual undercurrents of pre-revolutionary Russia, this study opens a door onto a mind unlike any other.
Author: Renato Poggioli
Format: Hardback
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Vasily Rozanov stands as one of the most provocative and enigmatic figures in Russian intellectual history, a writer whose radical subjectivity and philosophical audacity confounded critics and captivated readers in equal measure. In this incisive critical study, Renato Poggioli illuminates the life, thought, and literary legacy of this singular Russian thinker, charting his tortured relationship with Orthodox Christianity, his obsessions with sexuality and death, and his uniquely fragmented, aphoristic prose style that defied every conventional literary category of his era. Poggioli, one of the foremost scholars of Russian and European modernism, brings his characteristic rigour and elegance to bear on a writer who remained largely inaccessible to Western audiences. Part of the distinguished Studies in Modern European Literature and Thought series published by Bowes & Bowes, this compact yet authoritative volume argues for Rozanov's central importance to the development of modernist sensibility — a man who was simultaneously reactionary and revolutionary, devout and heretical. For anyone seeking to understand the turbulent spiritual and intellectual undercurrents of pre-revolutionary Russia, this study opens a door onto a mind unlike any other.