The Intimate Stranger: Meetings with the Devil in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature

by Julian W. Connolly

The Intimate Stranger provides the first detailed investigation of a distinctive literary phenomenon: a fascination with demons and devils in nineteenth-century Russian literature. Nearly all of the major authors of the period - Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy - used images of devils to explore issues of human temptation, sin, and guilt in a troubled world. Asking fundamental questions - where does evil come from? when does it appear...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820455164
• ISBN13: 9780820455167
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 308 Pages