Victor Dmitriev

author of Philosophical and Poetic Thought of Russian Symbolism

November 4, 2015

Victor Dmitriev, author and professor, has taught Russian Language and Literature at Oklahoma State University since 1989. Born in the Soviet Union in 1946, Dmitriev has lived and worked in the United States since 1981. He holds a diploma from the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music, and Cinematography and an MA and PhD in Russian Language and Literature from UCLA. He has written several books on Russian Symbolism, including The Silver Guest, poETIKA, and Philosophical and Poetical Thought of Russian Symbolism.

Philosophical and Poetic Thought of Russian Symbolism is written about Russian Symbolism in general and about the philosophical poetical nature of Russian Symbolism in particular. The main idea of the book: poetry is a vehicle for creating some new reality. Symbolism never died, nor evaporated, but that rather it lives on in the form of contemporary modernism and postmodernism.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2011-honorees/victor-dmitriev

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