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SURVIVAL OF THE SUBLIME IN A UNIVERSE OF MALICE: TESTIMONIES BY EVGENIIA GINZBURG AND OTHER GULAG WRITERS*

SURVIVAL OF THE SUBLIME IN A UNIVERSE OF MALICE: TESTIMONIES BY EVGENIIA GINZBURG AND OTHER GULAG... RIMMA V O L Y N S K A (Waterloo, ON, Canada) SURVIVAL O F THE SUBLIME IN A UNIVERSE O F MALICE: TESTIMONIES BY EVGENIIA GINZBURG AND OTHER GULAG WRITERS* Survivor o f concentration camps himself, and originator o f the psycho- therapeutic school o f logotherapy, Victor Frankl (1905-1997) was living p r o o f o f his own philosophy, claiming that human beings caught in the cir- cumstances o f the utmost e v i l - Nazism and Stalinism being two prime ex- a m p l e s - can, mentally, remain beyond the executioner's reach. Frankl's thin volume M a n 's Search f o r Meaning, turned out to be not only a groundbreak- ing exploration o f the threshold o f the human ability to survive, but also an ever challenging diagnosis o f the existential crisis that haunts the post- industrial world. Specifically, what interests us, as we re-examine Evgeniia Ginzburg's life with reference to testimonies by Lev Razgon, Meyer Galler, Varlaam Shalamov, Khava Volovich and Elena Glinka, is the question Frankl asked and answered in his search: why do some people survive, physically and spiritually, the most http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

SURVIVAL OF THE SUBLIME IN A UNIVERSE OF MALICE: TESTIMONIES BY EVGENIIA GINZBURG AND OTHER GULAG WRITERS*

VOLYNSKA, RIMMA
Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 39 (1): 71 – Jan 1, 2005
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© 2005 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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10.1163/221023905X00123
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RIMMA V O L Y N S K A (Waterloo, ON, Canada) SURVIVAL O F THE SUBLIME IN A UNIVERSE O F MALICE: TESTIMONIES BY EVGENIIA GINZBURG AND OTHER GULAG WRITERS* Survivor o f concentration camps himself, and originator o f the psycho- therapeutic school o f logotherapy, Victor Frankl (1905-1997) was living p r o o f o f his own philosophy, claiming that human beings caught in the cir- cumstances o f the utmost e v i l - Nazism and Stalinism being two prime ex- a m p l e s - can, mentally, remain beyond the executioner's reach. Frankl's thin volume M a n 's Search f o r Meaning, turned out to be not only a groundbreak- ing exploration o f the threshold o f the human ability to survive, but also an ever challenging diagnosis o f the existential crisis that haunts the post- industrial world. Specifically, what interests us, as we re-examine Evgeniia Ginzburg's life with reference to testimonies by Lev Razgon, Meyer Galler, Varlaam Shalamov, Khava Volovich and Elena Glinka, is the question Frankl asked and answered in his search: why do some people survive, physically and spiritually, the most

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