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Poison in his ear: Confession and acknowledgement in Russian literature

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This book by a professor of Slavic studies at the University of Zurich, Sylvia Sasse, is about a key Russian socio-cultural phenomena - confession in the Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Contents: Verbal sins in a church confession; Literary (anti)-confessions; Dostoevskii and Bakhtin: Disappearance of the addressee; Catching speech against catching sin: Tolstoi`s speech against weakness; Force of repentance; Atonement and a miracle of language in Gorky`s works; Subconscious confessions; Theater therapy. Double catharsis; Self-critic: Confessions in social realism; Fictitious confessions: Confession and historiography in Danilo Kish`s works; Theater or court?: Involvement of viewers in the trial; Unheard confession: Nabokov and the borders of communication; Father`s versions: Exercises of selfexuse. The previous volume in the series, Iazyk/Istoriia/Kul`tura: Sbornik Statei (2010), is also available