Word: vissarion
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...witticisms that make reading his literary magazine, n+1, so enjoyable—but rather that he perceives literature not as just a means of entertainment, but as a powerful social force, an attitude that has its roots in the literary criticism of the great 19th-century Russian thinker Vissarion Belinsky—and one that is both the novel’s greatest strength and its ultimate downfall.Ostensibly, “Literary Men” is about three young men, Keith (Gessen’s fictional alter ego), Mark, and Sam—all with some literary or academic...
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