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REMIZOV, Aleksey Mikhailovich (1877-1957). Autograph transcription, in Russian, of Apofeoz bespochvennosti by Lev Shestov (1866-1936). [c.1930s].
Autograph transcription by Remizov. Shestov was a Russian existentialist philosopher – renowned for his ‘philosophy of despair’, often compared to nihilism – who escaped to Paris after the Revolution. Apofeoz bespochvennosti was influenced by Nietzsche’s style; the introduction to its English translation was written by D.H. Lawrence, a great admirer of Shestov’s work.
One page, 267 x 210mm single sheet, 31 lines, with a Russian transcription of Lev Shestov’s Apofeoz bespochvennosti (The Apotheosis of Groundlessness, 1905) (slight toning).
Autograph transcription by Remizov. Shestov was a Russian existentialist philosopher – renowned for his ‘philosophy of despair’, often compared to nihilism – who escaped to Paris after the Revolution. Apofeoz bespochvennosti was influenced by Nietzsche’s style; the introduction to its English translation was written by D.H. Lawrence, a great admirer of Shestov’s work.
One page, 267 x 210mm single sheet, 31 lines, with a Russian transcription of Lev Shestov’s Apofeoz bespochvennosti (The Apotheosis of Groundlessness, 1905) (slight toning).
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