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Poetry and the Leningrad Religious-Philosophical Seminar 1974-1980: Music for a Deaf Age

By (author) Josephine von Zitzewitz

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The Religious-Philosophical Seminar, meeting in Leningrad between 1974-1980, was an underground study group where young intellectuals staged debates, read poetry and circulated their own typewritten journal, called â€˜37â€™. The group and its journal offered a platform to poets who subsequently entered the canon of Russian verse, such as Viktor Krivulin (1944-2001) and Elena Shvarts (1948-2010). Josephine von Zitzewitzâ€™s new study focuses on the Seminarâ€™s identification of culture and spirituality, which allowed Leningradâ€™s unofficial culture to tap into the spirit of Russian modernism, as can be seen in â€˜37â€™. This book is thus a study of a major current in twentieth-century Russian poetry, and an enquiry into the intersection between literary and spiritual concerns. But it also presents case studies of five poets from a special generation: not only Krivulin and Shvarts, but also Sergei Stratanovskii (1944-), Oleg Okhapkin (1944-2008) and Aleksandr Mironov (1948-2010).