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In his book, Vyacheslav P. Shestakov conducts a theoretical reconstruction of the concept of the ‘Silver Age’ of Russian culture. He highlights three typical features that this phenomenon has in common with the European Renaissance: Hellenism, aestheticism and eroticism. In an effort to disprove Omry Ronen’s claim that the Silver Age was an unsuccessful invention of literary scholars, Shestakov calls the Silver Age “a certain intention, viz. a project of the future.” The monograph includes sections on Russian philosophy, painting and ballet.
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Ronen, O. (1997). The fallacy of the silver age in twentieth-century Russian literature. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers.
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Maidanskaya, I. ‘The Russian Silver Age’: invention or intention? Review of Vyacheslav P. Shestakov: Russkii Serebrjanyi vek: zapozdavshii renessans [The Russian Silver Age: The belated Renaissance] St. Petersburg, Aleteia, 2017, 218 pp, ISBN: 978-5-906980-06-9. Stud East Eur Thought 72, 185–190 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-020-09376-0
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