Breaking Free from Death examines how Russian writers (Leo Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bunin, and Meyerhold) respond to the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs, and, ultimately, about their own inevitable finitude. What contributes to creative death are not just crippling diseases that make man defenseless in the face of death, and not just the […]
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