Mimesis

The Analytic Anthropology of Literature

Valery Podoroga, Evgeni V. Pavlov

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English

Verso Books
05 October 2022

Literary theory; Literary studies: general; Philosophy: aesthetics

Valery Podoroga was one of the most important thinkers of his generation. Here his most famous work is translated into English for the first time. In it he gives a panorama view of Russian writing, focusing in on the work of Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Andrei Bely. He identifies these authors as pioneers in creating an 'other literature'. This constituted a new form of mimesis or vision of the world, in opposition to the Imperial and national myths.

In Mimesis Podoroga develops and elaborates his analytic anthropological approach on these authors with startling effect, excavating the identities and forms of Russian literature, and society. He places an emphasis on how a literary work is a process of world building: both internally by creating a fictive world, but also how it reflects the wider world in which it was produced, and the power with which it changes the world. Finally, the literary work’s ability to exist in a time that is other than its own time, a time where it does not have a contemporary reader and an author who exercises his will, but where it nonetheless continues to mean something.

Mimesis is rightly seen as the masterwork of one of the world's leading literary thinkers.

By: Valery Podoroga
Translated by: Evgeni V. Pavlov
Imprint: Verso Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 356g
ISBN: 9781786636676
ISBN 10: 1786636670
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 05 October 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Valery Podoroga was born in Moscow in 1946 and was a leading figure at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Science until his death in 2020. He authored over 200 articles and ten monographs, he was award the prestigious Andrei Bely Prize for literature in 2001.

Reviews for Mimesis: The Analytic Anthropology of Literature

"""Podoroga has long been heralded as a quasi-patron saint of post-Soviet philosophy. . . Podoroga liberates classics of Russian literature from questions of historicism or fidelity to an external reality."" —Marxism and Philosophy"