Justification of the Fragmentation: Lev Shestov’s All Things are Possible (The Apotheosis of Groundlessness) (1905)

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Affiliation: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: 25a Povarskaya Str., Moscow, 121069, Russia

Journal name

Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka

Edition

Volume 79 Issue 6

Pages

73-82

Abstract

In All Things are Possible (Apotheosis of Groundlessness, 1905) – one of the key works of the beginning of the 20th century – Lev Shestov suggests the principles of fragmentation, which make it possible to more clearly represent many phenomena not only in philosophy, but also in literature and art, including those emerging much later. The search for new forms of thought took place in the new practices of narration and new representation of images (what became a key issue for the entire 20th century) of wandering in a labyrinth, lonely existence, insight, fragmentation of the universe. The images were inherent in the literature of the 19th century, but at the beginning of the 20th century they acquired new qualities and accounted for a new reality, in which the fragmentary is fundamentally incomplete, is not included in the system of thought, but forms new connections, exists without a unifying plan. This type of thinking is largely prepared by Lev Shestov’s practice of rereading, which creates a new type of thinking in all his works.

Keywords

theory of literature, literature of the turn of the 19–20th centuries, Lev Shestov, “All Things are Possible (Apotheosis of Groundlessness)”, fragmentariness, incompleteness, rereading, image

Received

25.12.2020

Publication date

25.12.2020

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34393

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GOST	Smirnova N. Justification of the Fragmentation: Lev Shestov’s “All Things are Possible (The Apotheosis of Groundlessness)” (1905) // Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka – 2020. – V. 79. – Issue 6 C. 73-82 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://izv-oifn.ru/S241377150013067-6-1 (circulation date: 27.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S241377150013067-6
MLA	Smirnova, Natalia "Justification of the Fragmentation: Lev Shestov’s “All Things are Possible (The Apotheosis of Groundlessness)” (1905)." Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 79.6 (2020):73-82. DOI: 10.31857/S241377150013067-6
APA	Smirnova N. (2020). Justification of the Fragmentation: Lev Shestov’s “All Things are Possible (The Apotheosis of Groundlessness)” (1905). Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 79(6), pp.73-82 DOI: 10.31857/S241377150013067-6

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