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  • Tolstoy: An Approach bound with Dostoevsky: A Study

    by Janko Lavrin ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
    This volume contains two concise works by the innovative twentieth-century literary critic Janko Lavrin, offering accessible and thoughtful introductions to the two greatest Russian novelists. It provides a perfect point of access into the often bewildering world of Russian literature, and the troubled geniuses which created it.Tolstoy: An Approach, first published in 1944, is an attempt to ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to the Russian Novel

    by Janko Lavrin ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    In this book, first published in 1943, Janko Lavrin provides an overview of the development of the Russian novel by placing the great Russian novelists – Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Gorky, Gogol – in relation to their native literature and their social, political and cultural backgrounds. An Introduction to the Russian Novel will appeal particularly to students of Russian literature and culture ... Read more

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  • Ibsen

    An Approach

    by Janko Lavrin ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This book, first published in 1950, could best be described as a combination of literary, psychological and social criticism. Considerable space is allotted to the personal inner drama of Ibsen, which provides not only a clue to his art but shows how most of his themes inevitably grew out of the other. The author also explores some of those factors which make Ibsen of interest to the generation ... Read more

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  • Gogol

    by Janko Lavrin ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This book, first published in 1926, aimed to introduce to English readers to a great and complex foreign writer in as simple terms as possible. As this was the first extensive study of Gogol in English, the author chiefly considered the general characteristics of the man and his work. This book will be of interest to students of literature. ... Read more

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  • Nietzsche

    An Approach

    by Janko Lavrin ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Friedrich Nietzsche
    Janko Lavrin's influential biography of Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1948, analyses the bond between Nietzsche's personal fate on the one hand and the trend of his thought on the other, set against the background of contemporary crisis typical of mankind in general. ... Read more

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