Correspondence Across a Room - Softcover

Gershenzon, M. O.; Ivanov, Vsevolod

Softcover

ISBN 10: 091039511X ISBN 13: 9780910395113

Publisher: Marlboro Press, 1984

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Viacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866-1949) was a Russian poet and playwright.

Mikhail Osipovich Gershenzon (1869-1925) was a Russian literary critic, essayist, and editor.

Lisa Sergio was a translator. She died in 1989 in Washington, D.C.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Russian (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Marlboro Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 091039511X
• ISBN 13: 9780910395113
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 63