Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia : Envy and Authorship in the 1920s
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
ISBN-10
1793605580
ISBN-13
9781793605580
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Lexington Books
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 10th, 2020
Print length
296 Pages
Weight
598 grams
Dimensions
23.60 x 15.80 x 2.60 cms
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Russia’s chief poet Alexander Pushkin defines envy as “wingless desire” in his short play “Mozart and Salieri” (1830). Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia examines how the Mozart and Salieri literary archetypes swap roles and how “envier” becomes “envied” in Russian Modernist prose during the New Economic Policy of 1921-1928.
In Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia, Yelena Zotova argues that the concept of envy underwent a peculiar transformation in the Russian Modernist prose of the 1920s due to a series of radical shifts in societal values, with each subsequent change thwarting Russia’s volatile axiological hierarchy. Consequently, a new literary type emerged, and envy, described as “wingless desire” by Russia’s chief poet Alexander Pushkin, obtained new ownership as the envied became the envier.
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