The Fallacy Of The Silver Age (Sign/Text/Culture)

First Published in 2004. In this original study, Omry Ronen critically examines the term Silver Age, which over the years has gained such wide currency among historians and connoisseurs of twentieth-century Russian culture. His latest research deals with metahistorical and metaliterary value of influential poetic locutions, such as the image of Russia as the sphinx, or the concept of the Silver Age in Russian cultural history.

Omry Ronen was trained as a philologist at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Harvard. He is considered the most discerning Western interpreter of twentieth-century Russian poetry –acknowledged in the standard editions of Russian masters of this century.