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Exile : The Sense of Alienation in Modern Russian Letters
author
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Patterson, David.
publisher
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University Press of Kentucky
isbn10 | asin
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print isbn13
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9780813118888
ebook isbn13
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9780813170190
language
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English
subject
Exiles' writings, Russian--History and criticism, Alienation (Social psychology) in literature, Russian literature--20th century--History and criticism.
publication date
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1995
lcc
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PG3515.P38 1994eb
ddc
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891.709/920694
subject
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Exiles' writings, Russian--History and criticism, Alienation (Social psychology) in literature, Russian literature--20th century--History and criticism.
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Exile
The Sense of Alienation in Modern Russian Letters
David Patterson
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Publication of this book has been assisted by a grant from Oklahoma State University.
Copyright 1995 The University Press of Kentucky Scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth, serving Bellarmine College, Berea College, Centre College of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University, The Filson Club, Georgetown College, Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky State University, Morehead State University, Murray State University, Northern Kentucky University, Transylvania University, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, and Western Kentucky University.
Editorial and Sales Offices: Lexington, Kentucky 40508-4008
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Patterson, David, 1948 Exile : the sense of alienation in modern Russian letters / David Patterson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8131-1888-3 (alk. paper) : 1. Exiles' writings, RussianHistory and criticism. 2. Alienation (Social psychology) in literature. 3. Russian literature20th centuryHistory and criticism. I. Title. PG3515.P38 1994 891.709'920694dc20 94-16230
This book is printed on acid-free recycled paper meeting the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials.
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For Luis
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CONTENTS
Prefatory Remarks
ix
Part One: The Word in Collision
1 The Loss of the Word in the Superfluous Man
2
2 The Collision of Discourse: Dostoievsky's Winter Notes
19
Part Two: The Breach between Life and Word
3 Monological Death and Dialogical Life: The Case of Ivan Il'ich
38
4 The Theological Aspects of Exile: Tolstoy's Resurrection
57
Part Three: The Rupture of Religious Discourse
5 Pavel Florensky's Antitheology
76
6 Shestov's Return from Athens to Jerusalem
94
Part Four: The Exile Within
7 From Politics to Metaphysics: Solzhenitsyn's From under the Rubble
116
8 Fragments of a Broken Silence: Andrei Sinyavsky's A Voice from the Chorus
134
Part Five: The Word in Exile
9 Exile in the Diaspora: The Poetry of Joseph Brodsky
154
10 Exile in the Promised Land: The Poetry of Mikhail Gendelev
174
Concluding Remarks
189
Works Cited
192
Index
200
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PREFATORY REMARKS
One of the distinguishing features of Russian thought over the last century and a half is the motif of exile. Indeed, the use of exile as a form of punishment in Russia can be traced back to the Middle Ages, when "undesirables" were sent to the monasteries on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea; soon after the Revolution of 1917, these monasteries were turned into the first systematic labor camps. From a political standpoint this motif in Russian letters is addressed in terms of geographic exile, both within and beyond the borders of the motherland; in the social realm it manifests itself as an estrangement of one class from another or an alienation of certain individuals from their own class. But, as is often the case, these external manifestations of exile have their internal implications, and the pursuit of these implications has been a major preoccupation of modern Russian letters. In addition to the authors to be examined here, many others immediately come to mind: the novelists Evgeny Zamyatin, Boris Pasternak, and Andrei Platonov; the poets Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelshtam, and Marina Tsvetaeva; the philosophers Nikolai Berdyaev, Sergei Bulgakov, and Semyon Frank.
These authors, as well as many others, demonstrate that for the Russian, exile is not only a social problem or a form of punishment for political crimes. Beyond these categories, it is an expression of that Russian condition that most of all announces the homelessness of the modern human condition in its existential and metaphysical aspects. It is the condition of the castaway that Walker Percy, for example, describes in
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