biography
| name: |
Rozanov, Vasily Vasilyevich
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pronunciation:
[rozahnof]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1856–1919)
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| biography:
| Writer, thinker, and critic, born in Vetluga, W Russia. A teacher in provincial schools, he came to prominence in 1894 with a critical study of the ‘Grand Inquisitor’ chapter in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Though a Christian, in his prolific writings he criticized contemporary standards from a Nietzschean standpoint. Much of his work is highly introspective, and his literary reputation is firmly based on the two books of fragments and essays, Solitaria (1912) and (trans title) Fallen Leaves (1913, 1915). |
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