Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Translator’s Note xi
5. Introduction xiii
6. Part I: The Titanic and the Demonic: Faust’s Heirs
7. 1. Faust and Peter on the Seashore: From Goethe to Pushkin 3
8. 2. The Bronze Horseman and the Golden Fish: Pushkin’s Fairy Tale-Poem 28
9. 3. The Motherland-Witch: The Irony of Style in Nikolai Gogol 53
10. Part II: The Great in the Little: Bashmachkin’s Offspring
11. 1. The Saintly Scribe: Akaky Bashmachkin and Prince Myshkin 87
12. 2. The Figure of Repetition: The Philosopher Nikolai Fedorov and His Literary Prototypes 101
13. 3. The Little Man in a Case: The Bashmachkin-Belikov Syndrome 113
14. Part III: The Irony of Harmony
15. 1. Childhood and the Myth of Harmony 125
16. 2. The Defamiliarization of Lev Tolstoy 158
17. 3. Soviet Heroics and the Oedipus Complex 178
18. Part IV: Being as Nothingness
19. 1. A Farewell to Objects, or, the Nabokovian in Nabokov 203
20. 2. The Secret of Being and Nonbeing in Vladimir Nabokov 215
21. 3. Andrei Platonov between Nonbeing and Resurrection 228
22. 4. Dream and Battle: Oblomov, Korchagin, Kopenkin 251
23. Part V: The Silence of the Word
24. 1. Language and Silence as Forms of Being 271
25. 2. The Ideology and Magic of the Word: Anton Chekhov, Daniil Kharms, and Vladimir Sorokin 280
26. 3. The Russian Code of Silence: Politics and Mysticism 296
27. Part VI: Madness and Reason
28. 1. Methods of Madness and Madness as a Method: Poets and Philosophers 313
29. 2. Poetry as Ecstasy and as Interpretation: Boris Pasternak and Osip Mandel'shtam 338
30. 3. The Lyric of Idiotic Reason: Folkloric Philosophy in Dmitrii Prigov 375
31. The Cyclical Development of Russian Literature 391
32. Conclusion 403
33. Works Cited 416
34. Index of Subjects 430
35. Index of Names 434