A Fallen Idol Is Still a God elucidates the historical
distinctiveness and significance of the seminal nineteenth-century
Russian poet, playwright, and novelist Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov
(1814-1841). It does so by demonstrating that Lermontov's works
illustrate the condition of living in an epoch of transition.
Lermontov's particular epoch was that of post-Romanticism, a time
when the twilight of Romanticism was dimming but the dawn of
Realism had yet to appear. Through close and comparative readings,
the book explores the singular metaphysical, psychological,
ethical, and aesthetic ambiguities and ambivalences that mark
Lermontov's works, and tellingly reflect the transition out of
Romanticism and the nature of post-Romanticism. Overall, the book
reveals that, although confined to his transitional epoch,
Lermontov did not succumb to it; instead, he probed its character
and evoked its historical import. And the book concludes that
Lermontov's works have resonance for our transitional era in the
early twenty-first century as well.
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