Beschreibung:
Irene Masing-Delic is Professor of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures at Ohio State University.
The idea of abolishing death was one of the most influential myth-making concepts expressed in Russian literature from 1900 to 1930, especially in the works of writers who attributed a "life-modeling" function to art. To them, art was to create a life so aesthetically organized and perfect that immortality would be an inevitable consequence.