Characterizing Rozanov (1856-1919) as one of the most original Russian thinkers of his day, Mondry (Russian, U. of Canterbury, New Zealand) describes his philosophy of sexuality and his
arguments that the accelerating disintegration of the Russian state was due to the sexual representations by major Russian writers and literary personalities. Among her perspectives are
Alexander Pushkin's family life as moral saga, Nikolai Gogol as a case of orientalizing the orientalizer, becoming Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev and the ethnicity of love, the Russianness of Leo
Tolstoy's body as a mirror of the Russian family crisis, and Rozanov's body politics in contemporary post-Soviet Russia. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
