Abstract
Another Russian cultural figure who became a key reference for Russian Montparnasse was Vasily Rozanov. Whereas in Soviet Russia the works of this thinker were practically suppressed,2 in the diaspora, they generated intense debates among intellectuals of diverse political and aesthetic views. Émigrés focused mostly on Solitaria (Uedinennoe, 1912), Fallen Leaves (Opavshie list’ia, 1913 and 1915) and The Apocalypse of Our Time (Apokalipsis nashego vremeni, 1918). These texts were not only released in quick succession by diaspora publishers3 but also began to appear in translation,4 provoking a range of reactions in the Western press.5 Paradoxically, while marginalized in his own country, Rozanov became the focus of a cult personality in interwar Europe.
[W]hat is needed is a great, beautiful and useful life. And literature need only be “mediocre“—somewhere in the “backyard.”1
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Rubins, M. (2015). “Backyard” Literature: Vasily Rozanov’s Unlikely Posthumous Fame in Paris and Beyond. In: Russian Montparnasse. Palgrave Studies in European Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137508010_12
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