Valery PodorogaMimesis
The Literature of the Soviet Avant-Garde
Übersetzer: Pavlov, Evgeni V.
Valery Podoroga was born in Moscow in 1946 and was a leading figure at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Science until his death in 2020. With a particular focus on 19th century Russian literature he developed his thesis of Analytic Anthropology. The author of over 200 articles and ten monographs, he was award the prestigious Andrei Bely Prize for literature in 2001.
Introduction: The Analytical Anthropology of Literature by Ioulia Podoroga
PART I. Eunuch of the Soul
Introduction: Homo ex machina
1 Positions of Reading
2 History as Nature
3 The Inventor of Machines
PART II. The Fainting of the World
Introduction: Fear of High Noon
1 Alea: A General Theory of Chance
2 Reverse Rotation
3 Conversations: A Community of Friends in Time