Kirjahaku

The first generation of Russian modernists experienced a profound sense of anxiety. What made them unique was their utopian prescription for overcoming the inevitability of decline and death. They theorized their defiance of death by suggesting the immortalization of the body through the power of erotic love. Matich suggests that same-sex desire underlay their most radical proposal of abolishing the traditional procreative family in favor of erotically induced abstinence. She shows how a brilliant group of Russian writers - among them the late Tolstoy, Vladimir Solov'ev, Zinaida Gippius, Alexander Blok, and Vasilii Rozanov - addressed the pressing concerns of a culture in transition, ranging from physical and psychological health, marriage, sexuality, and gender to anti-Semitism and the meaning of history.

Pogrebenie javljaetsja odnim iz universalnykh institutov, neobkhodimykh kak otdelnomu cheloveku, tak i tselomu obschestvu dlja sokhranenija pamjati ob umershikh. Pokhoronnye obrjady, reglamentirovannye vo mnogikh kulturnykh traditsijakh, strukturirujut emotsii i povedenie ne tolko skorbjaschikh, no i vsekh prisutstvujuschikh. Olga Matich opisyvaet kladbischa ne tolko kak tsennye istochniki mestnoj istorii, no prezhde vsego - kak muzei iskusstva, issleduja arkhitekturnye i skulpturnye osobennosti otdelnykh pamjatnikov, nadgrobnye zhanry i ikh khudozhestvennuju spetsifiku, otrazhajuschuju epokhu: barokko, neoklassitsizm, romantizm, modern i tak dalee. V knige idet rech o glavnykh parizhskikh kladbischakh (Per-Lashez, Monparnas, Monmartr i Passi), o kladbischakh moskovskikh (Donskoe, Novodeviche, Vvedenskoe i Vagankovskoe), a takzhe ob emigrantskom kladbische Cent-Zhenevev-de-Bua v okrestnostjakh Parizha. Sjuzhety, svjazannye s kladbischem kak sotsialnym institutom i individualnym mestom upokoenija, vpisany avtorom v istoriko-kulturnye i politicheskie konteksty svoego vremeni. Olga Matich - literaturoved i kulturolog, professor emeritus Kalifornijskogo universiteta v Berkli.