Religion and Passion in Russia and France includes 19th century works I have translated by Pushkin (1821), Vigny (1858), and Apukhtin (1883). Readers will see how the selected story-poems by these artists (now newly and form-faithfully rendered in lyrical English) advanced the liberation of our thinking about passion amazon audiobook in its continuing and intensifying conflict with religious authority, leading straight toward, or even antedating, 20th-21st century psychoanalysis.
No critic has ever put these three storytelling poets together to illustrate the developing thought current I describe. An introductory context including Genesis 3 and the Platonic-Aristotelian exaltation of the allegedly immortal intellect will set the stage for the unfolding rebellious French and Russian dramatic narratives.