Ljunggren introduces the Russian Symbolists, a group of poets, philosophers, and mystics in Moscow and Petersburg who dreamed of a new era that would revolutionize the Russian way of life and
transform Russian into the bridge between the best of the East and West. His topics include Andrey Bely and the philosopher’s nephew, the symbolist with two careers, symbolism’s charlatan,
Janko Lavrin as a pan-Slavist across the spectrum, Blok and Strindberg’s face, the early breakthrough of psychoanalysis in Russia, anthroposophy’s decade in Russia, Freud’s unknown Russian
patient, and Boris Pasternak and Goethe. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
