Russia and European Romantic Hero

This book apparently refers to the genre of literary criticism, more precisely of literary and philosophical essay. However, the author set himself a slightly different, more general task: by analyzing the form of the novels of Fedor Dostoevsky and Scott Fitzgerald, to identify ideological concepts in them that go beyond those that are usually guided by writers, developing a particular story. In this case, we are talking about the ideological concepts of the fate of Russian culture and European civilization. Or more specifically: the Western ideological concept of time as a process "from and to" ("Time - forward!", As the name of the novel by V. Kataev reads) and hostility to its Russian Byzantine cultural consciousness, to which it was forcibly vaccinated by the Peter"s reform