This book explores the unique way in which Russian culture
constructs the notion of everyday life, or byt, and offers the
first unified reading of Silver-age narrative which it repositions
at the centre of Russian modernism. Drawing on semiotics and
theology, Stephen C. Hutchings argues that byt emerged from a
dialogue between two traditions, one reflected in western
representational aesthetics for which daily existence figures as
neutral and normative, the other encapsulated in the Orthodox
emphasis on iconic embodiment. Hutchings identifies early
'Decadent' formulations of byt as a milestone after which writers
from Chekhov to Rozanov sought to affirm the iconic potential
hidden in Russian realism's critique of representationalism.
Provocative, yet careful, textual analyses reveal a consistent urge
to redefine art's function as one not of representing life, but of
transfiguring the everyday.
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