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Breaking Free from Death - The Art of Being a Successful Russian Writer (Hardcover)
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Breaking Free from Death - The Art of Being a Successful Russian Writer (Hardcover)
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Breaking Free from Death examines how Russian writers respond to
the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs,
and, ultimately, about their own inevitable finitude. What
contributes to creative death are not just crippling diseases that
make man defenseless in the face of death, and not just the
arguably universal fear of death but, equally important, the
innumerable impositions on the part of various outsiders. Many
conflicts in the lives of Rylkova's subjects arose not from their
opposition to the existing political regimes but from their
interactions with like-minded and supporting intellectuals,
friends, and relatives. The book describes the lives and choices
that concrete individuals and-by extrapolation-their literary
characters must face in order to preserve their singularity and
integrity while attempting to achieve fame, greatness, and success.
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