The Russian Image of Goethe, Volume 2: Goethe in Russian Literature of the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

by André von Gronicka

Book Overview

The two volumes of The Russian Image of Goethe constitute the only study in a Western language on Goethe's reception in Russia. Volume II is a seamless continuation of the earlier book, covering the second half of the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth. Von Gronicka examines the attitudes toward Goethe and his work of, among others, Turgenev, Dostoevski, Tolstoi, and the Russian symbolists. He draws on the Russian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812279867
• ISBN13: 9780812279863
• Release Date: September 1985
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary