This book explores the major paradoxes of Russian literature as a
manifestation of both tragic and ironic contradictions of human
nature and national character. Russian literature, from Pushkin and
Gogol to Chekhov, Nabokov and to postmodernist writers, is studied
as a holistic text that plays on the reversal of such opposites as
being and nothingness, reality and simulation, and rationality and
absurdity. The glorification of Mother Russia exposes her character
as a witch; a little man is transformed into a Christ figure;
consistent rationality betrays its inherent madness, and extreme
verbosity produces the effect of silence. The greatest Russian
writers were masters of spiritual selfaEURO"denial and artistic
selfaEURO"destruction, which explains many paradoxes and
unpredictable twists of Russian history up to our time.
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