This stimulating collection of essays, mostly concerned with subjects taken from Slavic literatures, is at once scholarly and reflective. The volume opens with a true story, "Brognart," which is a confession of the author's remorse based on conflict with French intellectuals. "Science Fiction and the Coming of the Antichrist" concerns Vladimir Solovyov. "Krasinski's Retreat" is another return to the author's student readings, which attempts to determine how a Polish romantic poet could write in 1833 a drama on the approaching world revolution. "Joseph Conrad's Father" sketches the biography of a poet and revolutionary and also throws some light upon the fate of the hero of the last chapter.
- ISBN10 0520033027
- ISBN13 9780520033023
- Publish Date 24 May 1977 (first published 24 April 1977)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 October 2000
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 246
- Language English