The Broken Icon
by Clive, Geoffrey frey50
Published by : The Macmillan Company (New York) , 1972 Physical details: 233 p.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 800 - 899 | 891.7 Cli (Browse shelf) | Available | 39124 |
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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.