Persisting in Folly: Russian Writers in Search of Wisdom, 1963-2013 (Paperback)

CONTENTS: Fools in Search of an Author (Voinovich’s Chonkin, Shukshin’s chudiki) ? In Praise of Folly ? From the Underground Man to Dame Folly: The Erasmian irony of Moscow-Petushki ? Not to Reason Why: Life against mind in the fiction of Yuz Aleshkovsky (Nikolai Nikolaevich, The Hand) ? Wisdom and Stasis in School for Fools ? Appraisals of Folly ? ≪The Idiot is You≫: Viktor Erofeev’s assault on the cult of folly ? Fool outside Christ? Dmitry Galkovsky’s myth of Rozanov-yurodivyi and its precursors (Sinyavsky, Ven. Erofeev et al.) ? Continuations and New Directions since 1991 ? The Infantility of Viktor Pelevin (≪The Ontology of Childhood≫, Omon Ra, Generation ≪P≫) ? In Search of Maturity: The fool and his brother (Terekhov, Pavlov, Sadulaev, Makanin, Sharov) ? The Fool and his Father, and Sometimes her Mother: Intellectual disability and holy foolishness (Buida, Vasilenko and others).