Breaking Free from Death: The Art of Being a Successful Russian Writer - Couverture souple

Rylkova, Galina

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 164469266X ISBN 13 : 9781644692660

Editeur : Academic Studies Press, 2020

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Galina Rylkova is Associate Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Florida. She is the author of The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Russian Silver Age and Its Legacy (2007). Her research interests include: Psychology of Creative Personality; Biography; and Russian Theater.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Academic Studies Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 164469266X
• ISBN 13: 9781644692660
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 206
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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