ISBN:
9789004296053
Language:
English
Pages:
vi, 182 pages
,
25 cm
Year of publication:
2017
Series Statement:
Studia Judaeoslavica volume 11
Series Statement:
Studia judaeoslavica
Uniform Title:
Bednyĭ ryt︠s︡arʹ, intellektualʹnoe stranstvie Akima Volynskogo
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Tolstai︠a︡, Elena, author Akim Volynsky
DDC:
891.78/309
Keywords:
Volynskiĭ, A. L
;
Critics Biography
;
Dance critics Biography
Abstract:
"In Akim Volynsky: A Hidden Russian-Jewish Prophet Helen Tolstoy goes far beyond the accepted image of Akim Volynsky as a controversial literary critic of the 1890s who ran the first journal of Russian Symbolists, promoted philosophic idealism and proposed the first modernist reading of Dostoevsky. This book, through the study of periodicals and archive materials, offers a new view of Volynsky as a champion of Symbolist theater, supporter of Jewish playwrights, an ardent partisan of Habima theater and finally, a theoretician of Jewish theater. Throughout his life, Volynsky was a seeker of a Jewish-Christian synthesis, both religious and moral. His grand universalist view made him the first to see the true value of leading Russian writers - his contemporaries Tolstoy and Dostoevsky"--
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