TY  - BOOK
AU  - Epstein,Mikhail
TI  - The Irony of the Ideal: Paradoxes of Russian Literature
T2  - Ars Rossica Series
SN  - 9781618116338
AV  - PG2986 .E7713 2018 
U1  - 891.709 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Academic Studies Press
KW  - Russian literature-History and criticism
KW  - Paradox in literature
KW  - Electronic books
N2  - Explores the most tormenting problems of Russian literature in provocative engagements with its major authors, from Pushkin, Gogol and Dostoevsky to Nabokov, Platonov and post-Soviet postmodernists. Focuses on the ironies and paradoxes that transform sublime ideals into their opposites and trigger the forces of evil and self-destruction
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ER  -