Showing posts with label HERZEN Alexander. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HERZEN Alexander. Show all posts
Friday, September 12, 2014

How can we fold our arms after this? - Herzen in London

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The first volume of My Past and Thoughts covers Alexander Herzen’s childhood, education , entry into radical politics and almost immediate ...
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Thursday, September 11, 2014

The mutual interaction of men on books, and books on men, is a curious thing - advice about Alexander Herzen's My Past and Thoughts

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Now, a post or two on the last of the massively long books I finished recently, Alexander Herzen’s memoir My Past and Thoughts .  Logistics ...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Notes on Herzen's My Past and Thoughts - Those five years were for me, too, the worst time of my life

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Since I am going to write a note on a Russian writer, I will first mention that I am for some reason organizing a readalong of Nikolai Chern...
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Sunday, February 16, 2014

She will not read the philosophy of Hegel.

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She can neither make a pancake nor darn a sock, and she will not read the philosophy of Hegel. This misguided fellow, an Isak Dinesen charac...
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Sunday, November 3, 2013

Alexander Herzen is saved by statistics

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The section of My Past and Thoughts about Alexander Herzen’s childhood, I covered that, more or less, just great, and I brushed against the...
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Saturday, November 2, 2013

Herzen writes characters - the chapter on his father - "For people he had an open, undisguised contempt – for everyone."

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Herzen’s father was a living example of Turgenev’s literary creation, the Superfluous Man, educated and Westernized to a point that alienate...
Friday, November 1, 2013

Alexander Herzen's memoirs, some introductory fuss

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Alexander Herzen almost makes me want to break my guideline against encyclopedism.*  Meaning the bio and political views and the historical ...
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