Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia: Envy and Authorship in the 1920s

by Yelena Zotova

In Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia, Yelena Zotova argues that the concept of envy underwent a peculiar transformation in the Russian Modernist prose of the 1920s due to a series of radical shifts in societal values, with each subsequent change thwarting Russia's volatile axiological hierarchy. Consequently, a new literary type emerged, and envy, described as "wingless desire" by Russia's chief poet Alexander Pushkin, obtained new ownership...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1793605580
• ISBN13: 9781793605580
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"