Bogat Evgeny. Eternal Man: Reflections, Dialogues, Portraits

Transl. from the Russian by Christine Bushnell. — Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976. — 292 p.Never before has man borne so enormous an emotional and spiritual heritage—a heritage that is at times unconscious, but nevertheless influences our actions and way of thinking. In the mad hustle and bustle of modern life we may forget the crucified slaves—the comrades-in-arms of Spar- tacus, the selflessness of the builders of gothic tathedrals, the love of Abelard and Heloise, the heroes of the French Revolution and the Paris Commune, the self-denial of the wives of the Decembrists and the great moral strength of Russian-revolutionaries. We may, I repeat, forget all this in the commotion of everyday life, but it does not desert us, it lives hi us, and this makes the future shock not so ominous at it seems today.I certainly do not wish to imply here that the modern world is stable and secure. In Eternal Man, the third book of a trilogy on man's moral world (the two preceding works—Are Wicked Sorcerors Immortal? and Wonder—will be dealt with in retrospect in Eternal Man), I have tried.to capture the spiritual life of compatriots and contemporanes. There is a fascinating passage in Marx which states that communism is impossible unless the riches of the past can be preserved. This has been the inspiration for my books on the spiritual world of modern Soviet man.From the AuthorTruths and Paradoxes. ReflectionsNietzsche's Walking StickEternal Man. DialoguesJustification of the Narrative Form
First Dialogue. TheWounded Bison
SecondDialogue.The Cup of Hemlock
Third Dialogue. Petrarch's Letters
Fourth Dialogue.The Ascesis of Love
Fifth Dialogue. Imperishable Grain
Sixth Dialogue. The Eighth Day of creationConstellations. PortraitsFirst Constellation. EccentricsTrevisan
Palissy
Marachev
Andersen
EnckeSecond Constellation. Beauty and GoodChekrygin
Tsaplin
Yelizaveta Kuzmina-Karavayeva
RembrandtReflectionsBoys and Girls
The Great Lesson of Childhood