Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Clive, Geoffrey frey50

The Broken Icon Intuitive existentialism in classical Russian fiction by Geoffrey Clive - New York The Macmillan Company 1972 - 233 p.

Includes index

Gogol and the absurd -- Dostoevsky and the intellectuals -- Goncharov and the spectrum of boredom -- Tolstoy and the varieties of the inauthentic -- Solzhenitsyn and the inconsequence of politics -- The broken icon -- Appendices : Descartes and Pascal ; Hegel and the first generation of the Russian intelligentsia ; Alienation ; On the existential import of two philosophical distinctions.

Examines the thematic development of absurdity, despair, and man's quest for meaning in Russian literature.


Existentialism in Literature
Russian fiction --History and criticism

891.7 Cli 14