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Correspondence Across a Room
Вячеслав Иванович Иванов
Михаил Осипович Гершензон
出版
Marlboro Press
, 1984
主題
Fiction / General
Fiction / Literary
History / Russia / General
History / Russia / Soviet Era
Philosophy / General
ISBN
091039511X
9780910395113
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=VRNmAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
The twelve letters that constitute this volume were exchanged by two of Russia's leading intellectuals, who, in the summer of 1920, weakened by the privations of the Civil War, were admitted to a municipal rest home outside Moscow. At the Sanatorium for Scientific and Literary Workers, they found themselves installed in opposite corners of the same room.
Day-long conversations having drawn them away from their literary tasks, the two then decided to converse in writing.
Correspondence
, the result, examines the condition and future of Western culture-whose values, according to the historian Gershenzon, have deteriorated into a deadly burden upon mankind, into mankind's ultimate prison. For the poet Ivanov, it is not the disavowal of a cultural heritage but the struggle to recover man's own unity with God that alone guarantees his true, his spiritual freedom.