Fiction's Overcoat: Russian Literary Culture and the Question of Philosophy

by Edith W. Clowes

If Dostoevsky claimed that all Russian writers of his day "came out from Gogol's 'Overcoat, '" then Edith W. Clowes boldly expands his dramatic image to describe the emergence of Russian philosophy out from under the "overcoat" of Russian literature. In Fiction's Overcoat, Clowes responds to the view, commonly held by Western European and North American thinkers, that Russian culture has no philosophical tradition. If that is true, she asks, why...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801441927
• ISBN13: 9780801441929
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher