Y. Sytina

“To Search and Not to Find”: The Fate of a 19th-Century Man in V. F. Odoevsky’s “The Sylph”

The works of V. F. Odoevsky are interpreted primarily from the philosophical and aesthetic principles of Romanticism. This view, while valid, sometimes obscures and narrows the deeper meanings of the writer’s work, who sought to understand not only human nature as such, but also to reveal the state of mind, skepticism,...