Janko Lavrin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1015847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janko Lavrin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janko |
| FAMILY NAME | Lavrin |
| SIGNATURE | LAVRIN J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1947 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An Introduction to the Russian Novel
A Note on Nietzsche and Dostoevsky
THE frequent mention of Nietzsche and Dostoevsky together is still topical for the very reason that both of them were among the acutest anatomists of our cultural, social, and moral crisis, the symptoms of which were already so prominent in the second half of the nineteenth century, let alone the century that followed. The character of their writing may have been conditioned also by their own bad health, since Dostoevsky was racked by attacks of …
Russian Readings Past and Present: An Intermediate Reader
Rilke and Russia
fT seems a paradox that the great modern German poet Rainer Maria Rilke was also a great and incorrigible lover of Russia, which he himself referred to as his chosen homeland (Wahiheimat). And he meant it. This may have been partly due to his racial origin, which included both German and Slavic ancestry. He traced-whether rightly or wrongly-his family name down to a thirteenth-century Carinthian-Slovene noble family called Rilko. Moreover, only t…
The Two Worlds
A NY serious discussion of Russia and the Russians invariably 171 tempts one to compare them with Europe, or with the Western world in general. Needless to say, such comparisons are often but guesswork consisting of a series of half-truths which can be interpreted this way or that way, according to one's prejudices and predilections. Still, the fact that Russia has played and is playing such an important part in contemporary history makes an effo…
Fjodor M. Dostojevskij in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten
Yury Krizhanich
Bakunin the Slav and the Rebel
MICHAEL Bakunin is known to the world as a great rebel. Even his admirers are, however, less familiar with the fact that before he embarked upon his gospel of anarchism, he had been one of the most impetuous and erratic champions of Slavdom, but with a difference. For in contrast to the quietist and religious-minded early Slavophiles Bakunin's exploits on behalf of the Slav idea were dictated by his innate revolutionary instinct and his demonic p…
An Anthology of Modern Yugoslav Poetry
Khomyakov and the Slavs
IN spite of the sketchy character of his work, Kireevsky was responsible for those basic ideas of Slavophilism subsequently worked out by other members of the movement, especially by Alexey Khomyakov, the most active of them all. In his main principles Khomyakov did not differ from Kireevsky. His conception of the wholeness of existence was practically the same. And so was his insistence on the importance of the irrational or supra-rational eleme…
Chaadayev and the West
feriority, conscious or subconscious, must often have played quite an important part. This feeling was bound to lessen, however, after 1812, and especially after Napoleon's downfall, when the leading role in European affairs was in the hands of Tsar Alexander I. Those were the years of glorification of things Russian (as a compensatory element) and even of Russia's past. Already in 1811 Karamzin-that one-time admirer of Rousseauaddressed to the T…
Lev Tolstoy
The Slav Idea and Russia
as a whole. A political or would-be political concomitant of such an attitude was the idea of a possible union of all the Slavs, presumably under the guidance of Russia. Not that such an idea of a Slav unity was something new. As early as the sixteenth century, Adam Bohorich, a pupil of the humanist Melanchthon and an important figure in the Slovene Reformation movement, pointed out in his Slovene Grammer the affinity of all Slav languages and na…
Populists and Slavophiles
I T is an historical commonplace to say that the division between the liberal or radical-minded Westerners on the one hand, and the religious anti-Western Slavophiles on the other, was actually symbolic of the split-up Russian consciousness after the reforms of Peter the Great. It is less often realized, however, that an analogous dichotomy was taking place in the Western camp itself when, during the 1860's and particularly in the 1870's, the pop…
Kireevsky and the Problem of Culture
A frequent mistake with regard to Slavophilism is to simplify that movement by reducing it to the mere antithesis of Russia and Europe, or to the ideological wrangles between the Westerners and the Slavophiles. Yet the movement itself was varied and complex enough to be approached from a number of angles: historiosophical, cultural, racial, religious, or even psychological (implying Russia's conscious or subconscious inferiority complex with rega…
Vladimir Soloviev and Slavophilism
Russia was symbolic of that dichotomy, or inner split-up, of the Russian consciousness which, after the reforms of Peter the Great, became inevitable. Like Janus, Russia has ever since had two faces-one looking toward the West, and the other looking not so much to the East as away from the West and into her own national and cultural character. Slavophile apprehensions that a thoroughly Westernized Russia might become only a secondor third-rate Eu…
Lermontov
Tolstoy and Gandhi
IT is not by mere chance that the names of and Gandhi are so often linked together almost as a matter of course. Even Lunacharsky, the late Commissar of Soviet education, referred to Gandhi as a Hindu Tolstoy. Gandhi confirmed his own indebtedness to Tolstoy, the thinker and the moralist, in a letter which he sent to the sage of Yasnaya Polyana on April 4, 1910, in which he called himself Tolstoy's devoted follower. And on September 7 of the same…
Russian Writers: Their Lives and Literature
Firebrand: The Life of Dostoevsky
Tolstoy and Gandhi
IT is not by mere chance that the names of and Gandhi are so often linked together almost as a matter of course. Even Lunacharsky, the late Commissar of Soviet education, referred to Gandhi as a Hindu Tolstoy. Gandhi confirmed his own indebtedness to Tolstoy, the thinker and the moralist, in a letter which he sent to the sage of Yasnaya Polyana on April 4, 1910, in which he called himself Tolstoy's devoted follower. And on September 7 of the same…
Bakunin the Slav and the Rebel
MICHAEL Bakunin is known to the world as a great rebel. Even his admirers are, however, less familiar with the fact that before he embarked upon his gospel of anarchism, he had been one of the most impetuous and erratic champions of Slavdom, but with a difference. For in contrast to the quietist and religious-minded early Slavophiles Bakunin's exploits on behalf of the Slav idea were dictated by his innate revolutionary instinct and his demonic p…
Vladimir Soloviev and Slavophilism
Russia was symbolic of that dichotomy, or inner split-up, of the Russian consciousness which, after the reforms of Peter the Great, became inevitable. Like Janus, Russia has ever since had two faces-one looking toward the West, and the other looking not so much to the East as away from the West and into her own national and cultural character. Slavophile apprehensions that a thoroughly Westernized Russia might become only a secondor third-rate Eu…
A Note on Nietzsche and Dostoevsky
THE frequent mention of Nietzsche and Dostoevsky together is still topical for the very reason that both of them were among the acutest anatomists of our cultural, social, and moral crisis, the symptoms of which were already so prominent in the second half of the nineteenth century, let alone the century that followed. The character of their writing may have been conditioned also by their own bad health, since Dostoevsky was racked by attacks of …
Chaadayev and the West
feriority, conscious or subconscious, must often have played quite an important part. This feeling was bound to lessen, however, after 1812, and especially after Napoleon's downfall, when the leading role in European affairs was in the hands of Tsar Alexander I. Those were the years of glorification of things Russian (as a compensatory element) and even of Russia's past. Already in 1811 Karamzin-that one-time admirer of Rousseauaddressed to the T…
Populists and Slavophiles
I T is an historical commonplace to say that the division between the liberal or radical-minded Westerners on the one hand, and the religious anti-Western Slavophiles on the other, was actually symbolic of the split-up Russian consciousness after the reforms of Peter the Great. It is less often realized, however, that an analogous dichotomy was taking place in the Western camp itself when, during the 1860's and particularly in the 1870's, the pop…
Firebrand: The Life of Dostoevsky
Russian Writers: Their Lives and Literature
Lermontov
Tolstoy and Gandhi
IT is not by mere chance that the names of and Gandhi are so often linked together almost as a matter of course. Even Lunacharsky, the late Commissar of Soviet education, referred to Gandhi as a Hindu Tolstoy. Gandhi confirmed his own indebtedness to Tolstoy, the thinker and the moralist, in a letter which he sent to the sage of Yasnaya Polyana on April 4, 1910, in which he called himself Tolstoy's devoted follower. And on September 7 of the same…
Kireevsky and the Problem of Culture
A frequent mistake with regard to Slavophilism is to simplify that movement by reducing it to the mere antithesis of Russia and Europe, or to the ideological wrangles between the Westerners and the Slavophiles. Yet the movement itself was varied and complex enough to be approached from a number of angles: historiosophical, cultural, racial, religious, or even psychological (implying Russia's conscious or subconscious inferiority complex with rega…
Vladimir Soloviev and Slavophilism
Russia was symbolic of that dichotomy, or inner split-up, of the Russian consciousness which, after the reforms of Peter the Great, became inevitable. Like Janus, Russia has ever since had two faces-one looking toward the West, and the other looking not so much to the East as away from the West and into her own national and cultural character. Slavophile apprehensions that a thoroughly Westernized Russia might become only a secondor third-rate Eu…
Lev Tolstoy
The Slav Idea and Russia
as a whole. A political or would-be political concomitant of such an attitude was the idea of a possible union of all the Slavs, presumably under the guidance of Russia. Not that such an idea of a Slav unity was something new. As early as the sixteenth century, Adam Bohorich, a pupil of the humanist Melanchthon and an important figure in the Slovene Reformation movement, pointed out in his Slovene Grammer the affinity of all Slav languages and na…
Populists and Slavophiles
I T is an historical commonplace to say that the division between the liberal or radical-minded Westerners on the one hand, and the religious anti-Western Slavophiles on the other, was actually symbolic of the split-up Russian consciousness after the reforms of Peter the Great. It is less often realized, however, that an analogous dichotomy was taking place in the Western camp itself when, during the 1860's and particularly in the 1870's, the pop…
Chaadayev and the West
feriority, conscious or subconscious, must often have played quite an important part. This feeling was bound to lessen, however, after 1812, and especially after Napoleon's downfall, when the leading role in European affairs was in the hands of Tsar Alexander I. Those were the years of glorification of things Russian (as a compensatory element) and even of Russia's past. Already in 1811 Karamzin-that one-time admirer of Rousseauaddressed to the T…
An Anthology of Modern Yugoslav Poetry
Khomyakov and the Slavs
IN spite of the sketchy character of his work, Kireevsky was responsible for those basic ideas of Slavophilism subsequently worked out by other members of the movement, especially by Alexey Khomyakov, the most active of them all. In his main principles Khomyakov did not differ from Kireevsky. His conception of the wholeness of existence was practically the same. And so was his insistence on the importance of the irrational or supra-rational eleme…
Fjodor M. Dostojevskij in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten
Yury Krizhanich
Bakunin the Slav and the Rebel
MICHAEL Bakunin is known to the world as a great rebel. Even his admirers are, however, less familiar with the fact that before he embarked upon his gospel of anarchism, he had been one of the most impetuous and erratic champions of Slavdom, but with a difference. For in contrast to the quietist and religious-minded early Slavophiles Bakunin's exploits on behalf of the Slav idea were dictated by his innate revolutionary instinct and his demonic p…
Russian Readings Past and Present: An Intermediate Reader
Rilke and Russia
fT seems a paradox that the great modern German poet Rainer Maria Rilke was also a great and incorrigible lover of Russia, which he himself referred to as his chosen homeland (Wahiheimat). And he meant it. This may have been partly due to his racial origin, which included both German and Slavic ancestry. He traced-whether rightly or wrongly-his family name down to a thirteenth-century Carinthian-Slovene noble family called Rilko. Moreover, only t…
The Two Worlds
A NY serious discussion of Russia and the Russians invariably 171 tempts one to compare them with Europe, or with the Western world in general. Needless to say, such comparisons are often but guesswork consisting of a series of half-truths which can be interpreted this way or that way, according to one's prejudices and predilections. Still, the fact that Russia has played and is playing such an important part in contemporary history makes an effo…
A Note on Nietzsche and Dostoevsky
THE frequent mention of Nietzsche and Dostoevsky together is still topical for the very reason that both of them were among the acutest anatomists of our cultural, social, and moral crisis, the symptoms of which were already so prominent in the second half of the nineteenth century, let alone the century that followed. The character of their writing may have been conditioned also by their own bad health, since Dostoevsky was racked by attacks of …
An Introduction to the Russian Novel
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