10. Scissors: A Psychoanalytic Excursus into Fate. Introduction: What Is Nature Morte? -- 1. Attraction to Chaos -- 2. Little Words: Agrammatism, or the Invention of Language -- 3. Number and Rhythm -- pt. II The Birth of the Double: The Logic of Psychomimesis and Fyodor Dostoevsky's Literature -- Introduction: The Dead Body of Christ -- 4. Plan and Work -- 5. The Blind -- 6. The Doubles -- 7. The Ideal Chronicler -- pt. III Literature as Self-consciousness: The Experience of Andrei Bely -- Introduction: Making-strange -- 8. Explosion: A Sketch of Poetic Cosmology -- 9. Blink-of-an-Eye: Notes on a Theory of Time -- 10. Scissors: A Psychoanalytic Excursus into Fate.
Summary:
"Valery Podoroga was one of the most important thinkers of his generation. Here he gives a panoramic view of Russian writing, centering on the work of Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Andrei Bely. These are the pioneers of an "other literature," a new form of mimesis or vision of the world, in opposition to imperial and national myths"-- Provided by publisher.
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