Bücher von ROSINA NEGINSKY

'Rosina Neginsky reminds readers that we are also artists, for he works summon our responsibility.'Ethan Lewis, poet and literary critic, University of Illinois at Springfield (USA).'Filled with expressivity, her distinctive poetry does not resemble that of any poet. The title of the book, JUGGLER, taken from one of her poems, refers to a figurative Juggler who manipulates human behavior and the inner manifestations of human beings toward their destiny. Like life, the Juggler appears through a range of nuances -- light and dark, joyful and sad. His actions and grimaces are present everywhere.' Tatiana Belogorsky, Slavic and East European Journal.'Rosina Neginsky is a poet, whose poetry deeply touches our soul and ignites our hearts. Her poetry contemplates eternity.'Alain Saint-Saëns, poet and literary critic, Instituto de Altos Estudios Estratégicos, Asunción (Paraguay).

In this book, Zinaida Afanasievna Vengerova, a once famous literary critic, whose importance for the turn of the century European intellectual world is no longer sufficiently appreciated, receives her first full length systematic study. Her intellectual exploration at the turn of the 19th century brought her into contact with Symbolist ideas from several European countries, and she used her profound understanding of these different currents of Symbolism to fashion for herself an ambassadorial role between Western Europe and Russia. In many critical studies she introduced the Russian intellectual world to a wide spectrum of Western European literature, art and thought, including Baudelaire, Maeterlinck, and the French Symbolist poets, Pre-Raphaelite and Expressionist art, and the thought of Nietzsche. As a regular contributor to the Mercure de France in Paris and the Fortnightly Review in London, she acquainted Western audiences with Chekhov and other fin-de-siècle Russian writers. Vengerova was instrumental in developing a theory of Symbolism, especially as it came to be understood in Russia. This book examines her life and work, and the intellectual milieu in which she lived; and serves as a window on Western European and Russian cultural history from the fin-de-siècle through the pre-war period and into the age of Russian émigrés of the 1920s and 1930s.