Ivan Konevskoi:"Wise Child" of Russian Symbolism

ISBN: 9781934843895 出版年：2010 页码：252 Joan Delaney Grossman Academic Studies Press

Ivan Konevskoi: 鈥淲ise Child鈥?of Russian Symbolism is the first study in any language of Ivan Konevskoi鈥攑oet, thinker, mystic鈥攆or many decades the 鈥渓ost genius鈥?of Russian modernism. A fresh and compelling figure, Konevskoi plunged deeply into the currents of modern mystical thought and art in the 1890s. A passionate searcher for immortality, he developed his own version of pantheism meant to guard his unique persona from dissolution in the All-One. The poetry of Tiutchev, Vladimir Solov鈥檈v Soloviev and Rossetti, William James psychology, paintings of Pre-Raphaelites and Arnold Boecklin, Old Russian historical myth, the Finnish Kalevala: all engaged him during his brief life. His worldview grew more audacious, his confidence in the magical power of the word grew more assured. Drowning in 1901 at 23, Konevskoi left a legacy unfinished, rich, and intriguing.