Reflections
29.99 €
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Reflections
29.99 €
The book by Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky (1855-1909), teacher, expert on Antiquity, poet, translator, playwright, and literary critic, includes his key works: The Book of Reflections (1906), The Second Book of Reflections (1909), and the articles What is Poetry? (written in 1903, published in 1911) and On Modern Lyricism (1909). The selected essays represent the unrivaled pinnacle of Russian aesthetic criticism. Annensky was one of those authors of the Silver Age who sought to establish literary analysis as a form of verbal art. He developed a distinctive style of narrating the works of writers who, in his view, were important for understanding the Russian soul in its striving for beauty as a justification for life, something he tirelessly sought. Annensky's style influenced the later works of N.S. Gumilyov and Yu.I. Tynyanov, V.B. Shklovsky, O.E. Mandelstam, and L.S. Vygotsky. Annensky reconstructs and analyzes what happens in the minds of writers during their creative process. The essay's key findings draw the author closer to the Russian existentialists N.A. Berdyaev and L.I. Shestov. Reflections is intended for those who wish to immerse themselves in the Silver Age, understand its essence, and its connections to previous and subsequent stages of the literary process in Russia. These readers, of course, are primarily students of humanities universities and teachers of secondary and higher education. The commentary, covering a wide range of realities from the mid-19th to early 20th centuries, is intended to help readers navigate the complex linguistic, cultural, and historical processes of the era.
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