Author: Oliver Ready

Publisher: Russian Transformations: Literature, Culture and Ideas

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783039119677

Foolishness has long occupied a prominent place in Russian culture, touching on key questions of national, spiritual, and intellectual identity. Combining close readings with a contextual framework, this book offers a wide-ranging consideration of the causes and consequences of modern Russian literature's enduring quest for wisdom through folly.