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Image of Christ in Russian Literature: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak

Contributor(s): Givens, John (Author)

ISBN: 9780875807799

Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press

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Pub Date: May 29, 2018

Dewey: 891.73009351

LCCN: 2018288536

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product

Target Age Group: 18 to UP

Physical Info: 1.00" H x 8.90" L x 6.20" W ( 1.20 lbs) 288 pages

Series: Niu Orthodox Christian Studies

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Description: Vladimir Nabokov complained about the number of Dostoevsky's characters "sinning their way to Jesus." In truth, Christ is an elusive figure not only in Dostoevsky's novels, but in Russian literature as a whole. The rise of the historical critical method of biblical criticism in the nineteenth century and the growth of secularism it stimulated...

Review Quotes:

[T]his deeply engaged study is a welcome contribution to the growing corpus of contemporary studies of Christianity in Russia.

-- "Times Higher Education"

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