Wonder Confronts Certainty

Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-674-29918-4
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Gary Saul Morson brings to life the intense intellectual debates shaping two centuries of Russian writing. Dialogues of great writers with philosophical wanderers and blood-soaked radicals reveal a contest between unyielding dogmatism and open-minded wonder, rendering the Russian literary canon at once distinctive and universally human.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morson, Gary Saul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien

Über Autor(innen)

Morson, Gary Saul
Gary Saul Morson is a prizewinning literary critic and the author of <i>“Anna Karenina” in Our Time</i>, <i>Narrative and Freedom</i>, and, most recently, <i>Minds Wide Shut</i>, cowritten with Morton Schapiro. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Morson has written for the <i>New York Review of Books</i>, <i>American Scholar</i>, <i>New Criterion</i>, and <i>Wall Street Journal</i>. He is Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University, where for three decades he has taught an iconic course on Tolstoy and Dostoevsky that is frequently the university’s most popular class.