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David Bethea examines the distinctly Russian view of the "end" of history in five major works of modern Russian fiction.Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Russian fiction --- End of the world in literature. --- Apocalyptic literature --- History and criticism.

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Poets, Russian --- Metaphor. --- Parabole --- Figures of speech --- Reification --- Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, --- Derzhavin, Gavriil Romanovich, --- Державин, Гавриил Романович, --- Державин, Г. Р. --- Derzhavin, G. R. --- Derjavine, Gavril Romanovitch, --- Deržavin, Gavrila Romanovič, --- Пушкин, Александр Сергеевич, --- Poesjkin, Alexander, --- Puszkin, Aleksander, --- Puschkin, Alexander, --- Pouchkine, Alexandre, --- Poushkin, Alexander, --- Puškin, Alexandr Sergějevič, --- Пушкін, Олександр Сергійович, --- Pushkin, Oleksandr Serhiĭovych, --- Пушкин, А. С. --- Pushkin, A. S. --- Pushkin, Alexander, --- Pʻu-hsi-chin, --- Pushkin, A. --- Пускин, Александр, --- Puskin, Aleksandr, --- Pooshkeen, Alexander, --- Pushḳin, Aleksander S. --- Puškin, Alexander Sergeevich, --- Puškin, Aleksandar S., --- Puškini, Alekʻsandre, --- Puskin, Alé̂chxanđrơ, --- Puskin, Alegsandar, --- Pushkin, Alejandro Sergueevich, --- Puchkin, Alejandro Serguievich, --- Puschkin, A. S. --- Puṣkin̲, Aleksāṇṭar, --- Pushkin, Alexandr, --- פושקין --- פושקין, אלכסנדר סרגיביץ׳, --- פושקין, אלכסנדר סרגייביץ --- פושקין, אלכסנדר סרגייביץ׳, 1799־1837 --- פושקין, אלקסנדר סרגיביץ, --- פושקין, א. --- פושקין, א. ס, --- פושקין, א. ס. --- פושקין, ס. --- 普希金, A. S., --- Pușkin, A. S., --- Influence. --- Puškin, Aleksandr Sergeevič --- Poesjkin, A. S. --- Poesjkin, Alexander --- Pouchkine, Alexandre --- Puschkin, Alexander --- Puschkin, Alexander Sergejewitsch --- Pushkin, Alexander --- Pusjkin, Aleksandr Sergejevitsj --- Puškin, A. S. --- Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich --- Biography

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This critical biography of Vladislav Khodasevich (1886-1939), David M. Bethea introduces to the Western reader the life and art of a literary figure described by Vladimir Nabokov as the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Poets, Russian --- Biography. --- Khodasevich, V. F.

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For several decades David Bethea has written authoritatively on the "mythopoetic thinking" that lies at the heart of classical Russian literature, especially Russian poetry. His theoretically informed essays and books have made a point of turning back to issues of intentionality and biography at a time when authorial agency seems under threat of "erasure" and the question of how writers, and poets in particular, live their lives through their art is increasingly moot. The lichnost' (personhood, psychic totality) of the given writer is all-important, argues Bethea, as it is that which combines the specifically biographical and the capaciously mythical in verbal units that speak simultaneously to different planes of being. Pushkin's Evgeny can be one incarnation of the poet himself and an Everyman rising up to challenge Peter's new world order; Brodsky can be, all at once, Dante and Mandelstam and himself, the exile paying an Orphic visit to Florence (and, by ghostly association, Leningrad). This sort of metempsychosis, where the stories that constitute the Ur-texts of Russian literature are constantly reworked in the biographical myths shaping individual writers' lives, is Bethea's primary focus. This collection contains a liberal sampling of Bethea's most memorable previously published essays along with new studies prepared for this occasion.

Russian literature --- Mythology in literature. --- Superstition in literature. --- History and criticism.

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For several decades David Bethea has written authoritatively on the "mythopoetic thinking" that lies at the heart of classical Russian literature, especially Russian poetry. His theoretically informed essays and books have made a point of turning back to issues of intentionality and biography at a time when authorial agency seems under threat of "erasure" and the question of how writers, and poets in particular, live their lives through their art is increasingly moot. The lichnost' (personhood, psychic totality) of the given writer is all-important, argues Bethea, as it is that which combines the specifically biographical and the capaciously mythical in verbal units that speak simultaneously to different planes of being. Pushkin's Evgeny can be one incarnation of the poet himself and an Everyman rising up to challenge Peter's new world order; Brodsky can be, all at once, Dante and Mandelstam and himself, the exile paying an Orphic visit to Florence (and, by ghostly association, Leningrad). This sort of metempsychosis, where the stories that constitute the Ur-texts of Russian literature are constantly reworked in the biographical myths shaping individual writers' lives, is Bethea's primary focus. This collection contains a liberal sampling of Bethea's most memorable previously published essays along with new studies prepared for this occasion.

Russian literature --- Mythology in literature. --- Superstition in literature. --- History and criticism.