Wonder Confronts Certainty

Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter

2023 • 513 pages

Gary Saul Morson brings to life the intense intellectual debates shaping two centuries of Russian writing. Dialogues of great writers with philosophical wanderers and blood-soaked radicals reveal a contest between unyielding dogmatism and open-minded wonder, rendering the Russian literary canon at once distinctive and universally human.

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