This Kantor’s book is a perfect example of socio-political journalism, where the author, using a free-and-easy aphoristic style, discusses the most sore and vexed subjects of modern civilization. Kantor poses not just as a journalist, but also as an experienced theorist of literature. Kantor draws hisoriosophical parallels between ideologies and characters found in Russian classical literature (in works of Pushkin, Herzen, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and others, demonstrating a booklore as the Enlightenment and freedom factor in Russia, or constant Russian carnival and devilry), and problems of the modern world. Kantor postulates his own vision of historical process, explains his theories of development of social structures.
Russian Classics. Essays 2005
This Kantor’s book is a perfect example of socio-political journalism, where the author, using a free-and-easy aphoristic style, discusses the most sore and vexed subjects of modern civilization. Kantor poses not just as a journalist, but also as an experienced theorist of literature. Kantor draws hisoriosophical parallels between ideologies and characters found in Russian classical literature (in works of Pushkin, Herzen, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and others, demonstrating a booklore as the Enlightenment and freedom factor in Russia, or constant Russian carnival and devilry), and problems of the modern world. Kantor postulates his own vision of historical process, explains his theories of development of social structures.