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Tag Archives: Ivanov

Caryl Emerson: “The Revolutionary Specters of Russian Letters”

Posted on June 18, 2017 by Vassilis Lambropoulos

The great Russian writers between “apocalypse and nihilism.”

Posted in anarchism, fiction, melancholy, Nota Bene, poetry, revolution, violence

Tagged Berdyaev, Blok, Dostoyevsky, Ivanov, Russian Revolution, Tolstoy

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Vassilis Lambropoulos
C. P. Cavafy Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature
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