This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...dream," even though of Chinese gilt tinsel. Tragedy, the veritable iron of the crucifying nails, is the source of all nobility, that ruby-red blood which maketh all those who receive its sacrament of "the blood royal." The existence of the Russian intelIligentzia is a continual unhappiness, a continual tragedy ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...dream," even though of Chinese gilt tinsel. Tragedy, the veritable iron of the crucifying nails, is the source of all nobility, that ruby-red blood which maketh all those who receive its sacrament of "the blood royal." The existence of the Russian intelIligentzia is a continual unhappiness, a continual tragedy. It would seem that there is in the world no situation more helpless than that in which the Russian intelligentzia has found itself--a position between two pressures: a pressure from above, of the autocratic order; and a pressure from below, of the dark element of the people, not so much hating as not understanding--but at times failure to under-stand is worse than any hatred. Between these two fearful pressures Russian sociality is grinding, like the clean wheat of God, --if God wills, it will be ground and there shall be meal, the meal for that bread with which, at last, the great hunger of the people shall be appeased; but in the meanwhile the lot of the Russian intelligent is still the lot of the grain of wheat--to be crushed, ground, --a tragic lot. There is no longer any thought of bourgeoisie--it is not a question of getting off well, but of getting out alive! Look closely: what an amorphous state of society, indeed; what strange personages! Here is a young man, "poorly dressed, with delicate features," the murderer of a usurious old woman, an imitator of Napoleon, a student who has not completed his education, --Rodion Raskolnikov. Here is a medical student who disembowels with his scalpel and scepsis live frogs and dead philosophers, and preaches Stoff und Kraft with the same cut-throat bravado as the merry men of Stenka Razin upon a time used to cry Sarin na kichku! 2--the nihilist Bazarov. Here is a...
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