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Loving Dostojevsky

Author(s): Susan Sontag
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Institutul Cultural Român
Keywords: Leonyd Tsypkin anti-Semitic campaign in Russia; KGB; Lidia Poliak; Andrei Siniavski; J.M.Coetzee; Master of Petersburg; Leonid Grossman; Balzac; Russian literature; Dostojevski; anti-Semitism; Thomas Bernhardt; J. Saramago; Pasternak

Summary/Abstract: Foreword to Leonyd Leonyd Tsypkin’s novel A Summer in Baden-Baden. A short biography of the writer and his family during the Second World War and under Stalin’s and Breshnev’s regimes. An analysis of the novel in the context of other works dedicated to Dostojevski, of the main themes of Russian literature, and of Russian history starting with the terrible 1930s.

  • Issue Year: 2006
  • Issue No: 60
  • Page Range: 66-72
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian