“The greatest literature advances understanding,” Morson observes, “not by supplying final answers to eternally open questions but by revealing new depths in the questions themselves.”
THE AMBITIOUS NEW VOLUME Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter could only have been pulled together by Gary Saul Morson, and if you don’t believe me, you can ask him: “About a decade ago, John Kulka, then at Harvard University Press, suggested this book, which, he said, I was ‘born to write.’” The United States’ foremost authority on 19th-century Russian literature, the Northwestern University professor builds a 400-page argument that avoids stridency while deftly laying out-truly, as only he could-example after example of resounding thoughts and quotations from every major Russian-language author from Alexander Pushkin to the 2015 Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich.
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