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Zinaida Vengerova: In Search of Beauty - A Literary Ambassador Between East and West (Paperback, 2nd New edition)
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Zinaida Vengerova: In Search of Beauty - A Literary Ambassador Between East and West (Paperback, 2nd New edition)
Series: Heidelberger Publikationen zur Slavistik.B.Literaturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 27
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In this book, Zinaida Afanasievna Vengerova, a once famous literary
critic, whose importance for the turn of the century European
intellectual world is no longer sufficiently appreciated, receives
her first full length systematic study. Her intellectual
exploration at the turn of the 19th century brought her into
contact with Symbolist ideas from several European countries, and
she used her profound understanding of these different currents of
Symbolism to fashion for herself an ambassadorial role between
Western Europe and Russia. In many critical studies she introduced
the Russian intellectual world to a wide spectrum of Western
European literature, art and thought, including Baudelaire,
Maeterlinck, and the French Symbolist poets, Pre-Raphaelite and
Expressionist art, and the thought of Nietzsche. As a regular
contributor to the Mercure de France in Paris and the Fortnightly
Review in London, she acquainted Western audiences with Chekhov and
other fin-de-siecle Russian writers. Vengerova was instrumental in
developing a theory of Symbolism, especially as it came to be
understood in Russia. This book examines her life and work, and the
intellectual milieu in which she lived; and serves as a window on
Western European and Russian cultural history from the
fin-de-siecle through the pre-war period and into the age of
Russian emigres of the 1920s and 1930s.
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