Breaking free from death : the art of being a successful Russian writer /
"Breaking Free from Death examines how Russian writers respond to the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs, and, ultimately, about their own inevitable finitude. What contributes to creative death are not just crippling diseases that make man defenseless in the face of d...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Academic Studies Press,
2020.
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Full text (Emmanuel users only) |
| Summary: | "Breaking Free from Death examines how Russian writers respond to the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs, and, ultimately, about their own inevitable finitude. What contributes to creative death are not just crippling diseases that make man defenseless in the face of death, and not just the arguably universal fear of death but, equally important, the innumerable impositions on the part of various outsiders. Many conflicts in the lives of Rylkova's subjects arose not from their opposition to the existing political regimes but from their interactions with like-minded and supporting intellectuals, friends, and relatives. The book describes the lives and choices that concrete individuals and-by extrapolation-their literary characters must face in order to preserve their singularity and integrity while attempting to achieve fame, greatness, and success"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 185 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1644692651 9781644692653 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 13, 2020). |