ANIMAL MAGIC IN SOLZHENITSYN, RASPUTIN, AND VOYNOVICH.
The three Russian writers under discussion in this article have all sought to affirm a spiritual dimension in man which is not catered for in a militantly materialist world or in a world seduced by glib notions of progress. In the case of Alexander Solzhenitsyn this has manifested itself as overt Ch...
| Publicado en: | Modern Language Review Vol. 82; no. 3; pp. 675 - 685 |
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Jul1987
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