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Article: Olga Matich. Erotic Utopia: The Decadent Imagination in Russia's Fin de Siecle.(Book review)
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- Utopian Studies
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- March 22, 2006
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Olga Matich. Erotic Utopia: The Decadent Imagination in Russia's Fin de Siecle. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2005. Illus. xii + 340 pp. $45.00
In Erotic Utopia, Olga Matich explores the lives and works of several Russian writers within a contextual framework that has received little attention. The tide of the book, a phrase borrowed from Evgenii Trubetskoy, refers to "the conviction that only love can overcome death and immortalize the body," a sentiment shared by the subjects of Matich's work (4). Not only does she strive to examine the writers' connections to the intellectual climate of their time, but she also analyzes their relations to and influences on one ...