Summary
Vasilij Rozanov: Apocalypse of our time
V. V. Rozanov is one of the most unusual and original people I have had the opportunity to meet in my life. It is truly unique. There were typically Russian features in him, and at the same time he was unlike anyone else. Meni se uvijek činilo da je on začet u mašti Dostojevskoga, i da je u njemu bilo nečeg nalik na Fjodora Pavloviča Karamazova koji je postao pisac. Po spoljašnosti, začuđujućoj spoljašnosti, ličio je na riđeg kostromskog mužika. He spoke lowering his voice to a whisper and slurping. He would speak the most startling thoughts in your ear, spitting (...) His literary gift was astounding, the greatest gift in Russian prose. That is the real magic of words. Njegove misli su gubile puno kada ih izlažete svojim riječima (...) Rozanov nije bio neprijatelj Crkve, nego samoga Krista koji je „opčinio svijet ljepotom smrti“. He liked many things in the Church. There was a lot of anger in the Church, a lot of anger. He said that he would rather light a wax candle to God: a candle is concrete and emotional, and God is abstract (Nikolaj Berđaev). Kada jednom taj mislilac, pored svih svojih slabosti, u nekim svojim sagledanjima isto tako genijalan kao Nietzsche, a možda čak i izvorniji od njega, prvobitan u svojoj antikršćanskoj suštini, bude shvaćen, pokazaće se da je on kao pojava maltene opasniji i da zahtjeva veću pažnju Crkve nego L.N. Tolstoy, regardless of all the current difference in the social influence of those two writers (Dimitri Mereshkovsky).
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