Tabachnikova, Olga (ed.). Facets of Russian Irrationalism between Art and Life. Mystery inside Enigma

Brill, 2016. — XX+541 p. — 9789004311114. — (Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, 61).
Russia is an enigmatic, mysterious country, situated between East and West not only spatially, but also mentally. Or so it is traditionally perceived in Western Europe and the Anglophone world at large. One of the distinctive features of Russian culture is its irrationalism, which revealed itself diversely in Russian life and thought, literature, music and visual arts, and has survived to the present day. Bridging the gap in existing scholarship, the current volume is an attempt at an integral and multifaceted approach to this phenomenon, and launches the study of Russian irrationalism in philosophy, theology, literature and the arts of the last two hundred years, together with its reflections in Russian reality.