Poetry as a State of Being: From the Notes of Ivan Solovyov

Abstract

Ivan Igorevich Soloyov (1944–90), philosopher, essayist, theorist of literature and art, lived in Moscow. He graduated from the philological faculty of Moscow State University, but he chose not to compromise himself with the ideological establishment of Soviet academia and preferred the life of independent scholarship and writing; he also taught high school Russian language and literature. He did not succeed in publishing any of his many works during his lifetime. Some of his writings appeared posthumously and are available in English translation.²

Translated from Russian by Michèle M. Biscoe.