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.
| ISBN: | 9781644692660 |
| Publication date: | 26th March 2020 |
| Author: | Galina Rylkova |
| Publisher: | Academic Studies Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 206 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Sociology: death and dying Literary studies: plays and playwrights Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Comparative literature |
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.
Breaking Free from Death features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Sociology: death and dying, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Comparative literature
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Breaking Free from Death was written by Galina Rylkova and published by Academic Studies Press
Breaking Free from Death has 206 pages
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