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Article: Writing as Exorcism: The Personal Codes of Pushkin, Lermontov, and Gogol.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2008
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Writing as Exorcism: The Personal Codes of Pushkin, Lermontov and Gogol. By ILYA KUTIK. (Northwestern University Press Studies in Russian Literature and Theory) Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. 2005. xiii+ 152 pp. $69.95 ISBN 978-0-8101-2051-8.
This short work opens with an introduction by Gary Morson which, as well as locating it in the context of literary history, alerts us to the unorthodoxy of Ilya Kutik' s approach to Pushkin, Lermontov and Gogol--his 'weird form of biographism' (p. xi) that focuses on authors rather than works.' Biographism' is an apt term for what Kutik does: his interest is precisely in the way in which writers' exorcize' ...