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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Iad v Ukho: Ispoved` i Priznanie v Russkoi Literature
[ Poison in his ear: Confession and acknowledgement in Russian literature]
Transl. from German by B.M. Skuratova and I.M. Chubarova
Moscow: RGGU, 2012 400 p Serie: Rossika / Rusistika / Rossievedenie. Vyp. 2 Hardcover. 14 x 21 cm ISBN: 9785728112778 Language: Russian
This book by a professor of Slavic studies at the University of Zurich, Sylvia Sasse, is about a key Russian socio-cultural phenomena - confession in the Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Contents: Verbal sins in a church confession; Literary (anti)-confessions; Dostoevskii and Bakhtin: Disappearance of the addressee; Catching speech against catching sin: Tolstoi`s speech against weakness; Force of repentance; Atonement and a miracle of language in Gorky`s works; Subconscious confessions; Theater therapy. Double catharsis; Self-critic: Confessions in social realism; Fictitious confessions: Confession and historiography in Danilo Kish`s works; Theater or court?: Involvement of viewers in the trial; Unheard confession: Nabokov and the borders of communication; Father`s versions: Exercises of selfexuse. The previous volume in the series, Iazyk/Istoriia/Kul`tura: Sbornik Statei (2010), is also available
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