Beginning in 1834 in the journal Telescope, this literary critic applied Shelling's views on national character to his nation's character in his 'Literary Reveries.' Though he died at age 37, he was a chief ideological forerunner of Social Realism and along with Alexander Herzen was a leader of the Intelligentsia. Perhaps most famous for his "Selected Passages from Correspondence with My Friends" in which he chided a betrayal of the Russian peopl
Beginning in 1834 in the journal Telescope, this literary critic applied Shelling's views on national character to his nation's character in his 'Literary Reveries.' Though he died at age 37, he was a chief ideological forerunner of Social Realism and along with Alexander Herzen was a leader of the Intelligentsia. Perhaps most famous for his "Selected Passages from Correspondence with My Friends" in which he chided a betrayal of the Russian people by Nickolai Gogol, --for 10 points-- name this influential literary critic and mentor of Turgenev who was known as "furious Vissarion." (VIS-rhy- ON)
Beginning in 1834 in the journal Telescope, this literary critic applied Shelling's views on national character to his nation's character in his 'Literary Reveries.'
Vissarion Grigoryevich {Belinsky}