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Persisting in Folly: Russian Writers in Search of Wisdom, 1963-2013

Persisting in Folly: Russian Writers in Search of Wisdom, 1963-2013

Ready, Oliver
Kahn, Andrew

Paperback

Series: Russian Transformations: Literature, Culture and Ideas, Book 6

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3039119672
ISBN13: 9783039119677
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
Published: Feb 28 2017
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The theme of foolishness has long occupied an unusually prominent place in Russian culture, touching on key questions of national, spiritual, and intellectual identity. In literature, the figure of the fool - and the voice of the fool - has carried additional appeal as an enduring source of comic and stylistic innovation. Never has this appeal been stronger than in the past half-century, whether as a reaction to the scientific atheism and official culture of the late-socialist era, or as a response to the intellectual and moral disorientation that accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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