{"product_id":"zinaida-vengerova-horst-jzrgen-gerigk-9783631547229","title":"Zinaida Vengerova: In Search of Beauty: A Literary Ambassador between East and West","description":"In this book, Zinaida Afanasievna Vengerova, a once famous literary critic, whose importance for the turn of the century European intellectual world is no longer sufficiently appreciated, receives her first full length systematic study. Her intellectual exploration at the turn of the 19th century brought her into contact with Symbolist ideas from several European countries, and she used her profound understanding of these different currents of Symbolism to fashion for herself an ambassadorial role between Western Europe and Russia. In many critical studies she introduced the Russian intellectual world to a wide spectrum of Western European literature, art and thought, including Baudelaire, Maeterlinck, and the French Symbolist poets, Pre-Raphaelite and Expressionist art, and the thought of Nietzsche. As a regular contributor to the \u003ci\u003eMercure de France\u003c\/i\u003e in Paris and the \u003ci\u003eFortnightly Review\u003c\/i\u003e in London, she acquainted Western audiences with Chekhov and other \u003ci\u003efin-de-si cle\u003c\/i\u003e Russian writers. Vengerova was instrumental in developing a theory of Symbolism, especially as it came to be understood in Russia. This book examines her life and work, and the intellectual milieu in which she lived; and serves as a window on Western European and Russian cultural history from the \u003ci\u003efin-de-si cle\u003c\/i\u003e through the pre-war period and into the age of Russian  migr s of the 1920s and 1930s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Horst-Jürgen Gerigk, Rosina Neginsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3631547226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783631547229\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.48d","brand":"Horst-Jürgen Gerigk","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46052287086847,"sku":"9783631547229","price":85.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_90052ca0-85f4-46e4-8175-1d42ac3e9cff.jpg?v=1723555884","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/zinaida-vengerova-horst-jzrgen-gerigk-9783631547229","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}