By Lydia Ginzburg, Judson Rosengrant
Similar in significance to Mikhail Bakhtin, Lydia Ginzburg special herself between Soviet literary critics via her research of the social and historic components that relate verbal artwork to lifestyles in a specific tradition. Her paintings speaks on to these Western critics who might locate that deconstructionist and psychoanalytical techniques through themselves are incapable of addressing the total which means of literature. right here, in her first booklet to be translated into English, Ginzburg examines the reciprocal dating among literature and existence by means of exploring the advance of identical to character as either a classy and social phenomenon. exhibiting that the boundary among conventional literary genres and other forms of writing is a traditionally variable one, Ginzburg discusses quite a lot of Western texts from the eighteenth century onward--including normal letters and different historic and social records, autobiographies equivalent to the Memoires of Saint-Simon, Rousseau's Confessions, and Herzen's My earlier and techniques, and the novels of Stendhal, Flaubert, Turgenev, and Tolstoi. a huge part of the research is dedicated to Tolstoi's contribution to the literary research of character, specially in his epic landscape of Russian existence, conflict and Peace, and in Anna Karenina.
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John Mason’s chapter called “Self-Knowledge promotes our Usefulness in the World” is devoted to the question of the maximal utilization of one’s gifts. Discussed in it are those who “live away whole days, weeks, and sometimes months together, to as little purpose, . . as if they had been asleep all the while” (pt. 3, chap. 7). On August 26, 1805, Zhukovskii wrote in his journal: In my present frame of mind I don’t even feel the need to think: such moments are very close to nothingness, or are even worse than nothingness, since you feel something unpleasant.
Uncoordinated, unconscious, or semiconscious elements coalesce in a system. History knows politically and ideologically dynamic periods when only one definite social position is possible for the different members of a single social group. Such was the case, for example, with the “educated nobility” of the Decembrist period, or with the plebeian intelligentsia of the 1860s. In more unsettled and transitional times, there may be several characteristic social positions available to people of a single stratum.
The great figures of Russian culture in the middle and second half of the nineteenth century drew different conclusions from the experience of circle life. It is clear how important the perfervid intellectual atmosphere of the Friday meetings of the [Fourierist] Petrashevskii circle must have been for Dostoevskii’s novel of ideas. ” The structure of the Turgenev novel is something else again. Although they are not novels of ideas, a hero-ideologue stands at the center of each—from Rudin to Virgin Soil.