Kulakovius Kievskii Professor Rimskoi Slovesnosti V Struzkah Vremeni |
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Author:
| Puchkov, Andrii |
Cover Design by:
| Puchkov, Andrii |
Editor:
| Yunakov, Oleg |
Reviewed by:
| Yunakov, Oleg Stanislavskaya, Ekaterina |
Literary editor:
| Stanislavskaya, Ekaterina |
Translator:
| Kulinskaya, Svetlana |
Prepared for Publication by:
| Chervinsky, Alexander |
ISBN: | 978-1-68082-014-0 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2019 |
Publisher: | Almaz
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $14.00 |
Book Description:
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The epic work follows the life of the ordinary professor of a Russian university in the second half of the 19th century and until the 1910s, who had diligently fulfilled his role as a scholar and individual on a daily basis. It is shown that such life of nurturing of spirit and mind could be no less exciting, edifying, meaningful, superficially comical yet profoundly dramatic than the mundane existence. Barren of involuntary emissions of thoughts, his acts of creative writing that...
More DescriptionThe epic work follows the life of the ordinary professor of a Russian university in the second half of the 19th century and until the 1910s, who had diligently fulfilled his role as a scholar and individual on a daily basis. It is shown that such life of nurturing of spirit and mind could be no less exciting, edifying, meaningful, superficially comical yet profoundly dramatic than the mundane existence. Barren of involuntary emissions of thoughts, his acts of creative writing that combine literary artistry and academic tediousness secure Julian Kulakovsky (1855-1919), a classical philologist, archaeologist and a Byzantine researcher from Kyiv, his rightful place in history (not so much in the 'Big' history as in the 'little' one). His writing escapades prove that inner experiences are far more important than external impressions if the one is involved in pleasures of intellectual abstractions more than in the annoying visually perceived surroundings. This biographically structured anti-biographical chronicle of Julian Kulakovsky resembles a historical record. Its mosaic flickering between the background and the figure is aimed to solidify his humanistic profile of the creative individual within the traits of his time, often causal and chaotic.