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Caryl Emerson: “The Revolutionary Specters of Russian Letters”

Posted on June 18, 2017 by Vassilis Lambropoulos | Comments Off on Caryl Emerson: “The Revolutionary Specters of Russian Letters”

The great Russian writers between “apocalypse and nihilism.”

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