Erotic Utopia by Olga Matich

This book caught my eye with its intriguing title and subtitle: The decadent imagination in Russia’s fin-de-siècle, while I was ordering Russian literature books. I read most of the introduction and conclusion, but ended just skimming the rest, as it required a much more in depth knowledge of Russian literature and culture than I possess. I especially liked the term "erotic celibacy" that was used throughout. Otherwise it was quite theoretical, looking at the lives Russian authors, their relationships and ideas and how they portrayed them in their works. Modernism and psychopathology were applied.
(Read April, 2006)