Fatenkov, A. N. Ten or Twenty Years Later: Post-Revolutionary Russia in Walter Benjamin’s and Louis- Ferdinand Celine’s Literary and Philosophical Sketches

Abstract: The author of the article views the contents and methods of literary and philosophical drafts written by Walter Benjamin and Louis-Ferdinand Celine after the revolution from the point of existential realism. European intellectuals who have a negative attitude to bourgeois social system are quite critical in perception of the Soviet realities. Compared to the described historical evidence, the author shares his own understanding of the past and present events and stresses out the priority of the existential over the social in human nature.

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