Emily Klenin A Most Russian Russian in a Nascent Estonia Fet and Kreutzwald
Emily Klenin
A Most Russian Russian in a Nascent Estonia
Fet and Kreutzwald
Emily Klenin
A Most Russian Russian in a Nascent Estonia
Fet and Kreutzwald
The Irony of the Ideal: Paradoxes of Russian Literature Mikhail Epstein Russian literature is prone to self–contradictions. This book investigates the paradoxical logic of self–denial characteristic of certain authors and literary epochs and trends. A “paradox” is a situation or utterance that, according to its own logic, unexpectedly contradicts itself, refutes its own premises, and lays waste to its own foundations. Besides this international term, Russian also has colloquial words