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ISBN: 9780804720595 - Holy Foolishness Holy Foolishness
Harriet Murav Harriet Murav (University of California, Davis, USA)

ISBN10: 0804720592  ISBN13: 9780804720595
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 30 Sep 1993
This book examines the ways in which Dostoevsky's adoption and reinvention of the medieval Russian holy fool - in Russian Orthodoxy, a person who feigned madness or folly as an ascetic feat of self-humiliation - serves as a locus for a critique of... More