Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 381 g
A Cultural Encounter
Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 381 g
Reihe: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
ISBN: 978-0-8101-1466-1
Verlag: Northwestern University Press
Explores the importance of Russia in shaping Rainer Maria Rilke's aesthetics. Rilke's two trips to Russia at the turn of the century, made in the company of Lou Andreas-Salome, led to connections with Leo Tolstoy, Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva and Maxim Gorky. Tavis uses letters, poems, and fiction to trace Rilke's actual and symbolic encounters with Russian culture and its prose masters between 1898 and 1926.
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Russian before Russia; mapping the ""Russian soul"" - Lou Andreas-Salome; two Russian capitals; in the heartlands - Spiridon Drozhzhin and Rilke's Russian poems; the aesthetics of icons and tales - Nikolai Leskov and Victor Vasnetsov; the predicament of influence - Rilke and Tolstoy; fictionalizing Tolstoy; Russia revisited - Gorky and Pasternak; beyond Rilke - Marina Tsvetaeva.
