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Sto caricando le informazioni... Vita dell'arciprete Avvakum scritta da lui stessodi Protopope Avvakum Petrovich
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Avvakum was the last of HM's works to be published by Hogarth, and the first of the two Russian translations she did in partnership with Jane Harrison. The book is the autobiography of a seventeenth century Russian priest. To me at least, Avvakum's incessant bleating about his own piety and the tribulations he suffers at the hands of the unworthy are simply tiresome, and the best part of the book is Prince Mirsky's introduction. This is not to slight Mirrlees and Harrison's translation, which I'm sure is deft and accurate; both were accomplished linguists. It's the work itself I don't like. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Moscow in the middle of the seventeenth century had a distinctly apocalyptic feel. An outbreak of the plague killed half the population. A solar eclipse and comet appeared in the sky, causing panic. And a religious reform movement intended to purify spiritual life and provide for the needy had become a violent political project that cleaved Russian society and the Orthodox Church in two. The autobiography of Archpriest Avvakum--a leader of the Old Believers, who opposed liturgical and ecclesiastical reforms--provides a vivid account of these cataclysmic events from a figure at their center. Written in the 1660s and '70s from a cell in an Arctic village where the archpriest had been imprisoned by the tsar, Avvakum's autobiography is a record of his life, ecclesiastical career, painful exile, religious persecution, and imprisonment. It is also a salvo in a contest about whether to follow the old Russian Orthodox liturgy or import Greek rites and practices. These concerns touched every stratum of Russian society--and for Avvakum, represented an urgent struggle between good and evil. Avvakum's autobiography has been a cornerstone of Russian literature since it first circulated among religious dissidents. One of the first Russian-language autobiographies and works of any sort to make use of colloquial Russian, its language and style served as a model for writers such as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Gorky. The Life Written by Himself is not only an important historical document but also an emotionally charged and surprisingly conversational self-portrait of a crucial figure in a tumultuous time. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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