Psychopathology in Russian Literature
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Genius and insanity… This topic has hardly been ever touched upon in literary studies of the Soviet period, although Russian literature knows such mentally diseased writers as N.Gogol, F.Dostoyevsky and V.Garshin. The author gives a detailed interpretation of the diagnoses of these writers. Besides, he provides a pathographic description of the personalities of A.Radishchev, P.Chaadayev, M.Lermontov, I.Turgenev and V.Mayakovsky. Some facts of the psychopathological analysis are sensational and even shocking. Part II of the book contains psychopathological studies published in the 1920s.
