Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter

by Gary Saul Morson

Book Overview

A noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsibility, and freedom.

Since the age of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov, Russian literature has posed questions about good and evil, moral responsibility, and human freedom with a clarity and intensity found nowhere else. In this wide-ranging meditation, Gary Saul Morson delineates intellectual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674971809
• ISBN13: 9780674971806
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"