Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1103822 Russian Literature 2015 24 Pages PDF
Abstract

The article dwells on autobiographical documents (diaries and letters) devoted to Goethe from the Moscow archive of E. Medtner. The author reconstructs a cultural utopia – another one among Russian Symbolist projects of self-fashioning: Transforming Goethe from an aesthetic model and an object of personal cult into the founder of a new religion – “Saint Wolfgang”.

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