Creating Life: The Aesthetic Utopia of Russian Modernism

by Irina Paperno (Editor)

This book analyzes the modernist aesthetic utopia, advancing two arguments concerning the historical evolution of the Russian literary and cultural that modernism, ostensibly reacting against positivism and realism, assimilated some of the fundamental principles of its archenemy; and that there is an essential continuity between turn-of-the-century modernist aesthetics and Soviet culture of the 1920’s and 1930’s.

300 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1994

About the author

Irina Paperno's expertise includes Russian literature in the 19th-20th centuries and Russian intellectual history. Her recent research interests include the history of private life and the intellectual sources of the concepts of self.

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