The Fear of Tautology as Esthetic and Ethic Category
The notion of the “fear of tautology” marks Joseph Brodsky’s poem “Notes of a Fern”: “But evil cannot befall a bad human, and the fear of a tautology is a guarantee of prosperity.” The poet thus inverts Socrates’ assertion that no evil befalls a good person. In the eyes of Brodsky, this assertion re...
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A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2022-06-01
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Online Access: | http://studlit.ru/images/2022-7-2/01_Kovelman_10-27.pdf |