Erotic Utopia: The Decadent Imagination in Russia's Fin de Siecle By Olga Matich
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press 2007-07-02 | 354 Pages | ISBN: 0299208842 | PDF | 2.4 MB | english
The first generation of Russian modernists experienced a profound sense of anxiety. What made them unique was their utopian prescription for overcoming the inevitability of decline and death. They theorized their defiance of death by suggesting the immortalization of the body through the power of erotic love...