The Phoenix and the Spider : A Book of Essays about some Russian Writers and their View of the Self

The Phoenix and the Spider oncc said, "the phenomenal corruscation of the soul of quite commonplace people." 23 This is why even gray and black people end by radiating all the colors of the rainbow. There are indeed more than blue hares in the splendid gallery of Russian realism. NOTES Foreword CONTENTS The Tradition of Russian Realism Dostoevski, or Reality and Myth On Goncharov and His Oblomov A Portrait of Tolstoy as Alceste Storytelling in a Double Key The Art of Ivan Bunin On the Works and Thoughts of Vasili Rozanov A Correspondence from Opposite Corners Isaak Babel in Retrospect