Preface
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Acknowledgement
Part I. A Stepson of the Empire: 1. The generation of 1956
2. A new pre-Gutenberg epoch
3. The northern exile
4. A change of empires
Part II. Longing for World Culture: 5. In defence of culture
6. A modern descendant of classicism
7. Elegies to the admired dead: John Donne, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden
Part III. The Mask of Metaphor: 8. A web of metaphors
9. Similarity in disparity
10. Ars est celare artem
11. A form of identity of two versions
Part IV. Words Devouring Things: 12. Thing - Veshch
13. Man - thing - number
14. Man - word - spirit
15. An intellectual and poetic tour de force
Part V. A Song of Disobedience: 16. Poet versus empire
17. A masochistic joy
18. Speaking into silence
Part VI. Image of Alienation: 19. A stern metaphysical realist
20. Man against time and space
21. Credo quia absurdum est
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