Description
| Product ID: | 9781644692660 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Breaking Free from Death |
| Subtitle: | The Art of Being a Successful Russian Writer |
| Authors: | Author: Galina Rylkova |
| Page Count: | 206 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary companions, book reviews and guides, History, Social and political philosophy, Sociology: death and dying, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Creative therapy / Expressive therapies, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary companions, book reviews & guides, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Social & political philosophy, Sociology: death & dying, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama), Russia, Russian, c 1700 to c 1800 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Examines how Russian writers respond to the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs, and, ultimately, about their own inevitable finitude. The book describes the lives and choices that concrete individuals and their literary characters must face in order to preserve their integrity while attempting to achieve fame and success. Breaking Free from Death examines how Russian writers respond to the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs, and, ultimately, about their own inevitable finitude. What contributes to creative death are not just crippling diseases that make man defenseless in the face of death, and not just the arguably universal fear of death but, equally important, the innumerable impositions on the part of various outsiders. Many conflicts in the lives of Rylkova’s subjects arose not from their opposition to the existing political regimes but from their interactions with like-minded and supporting intellectuals, friends, and relatives. The book describes the lives and choices that concrete individuals and—by extrapolation—their literary characters must face in order to preserve their singularity and integrity while attempting to achieve fame, greatness, and success. |
| Imprint Name: | Academic Studies Press |
| Publisher Name: | Academic Studies Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-03-26 |
