Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia

<P>In Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia Yelena Zotova argues that the concept of envy underwent a peculiar transformation in the Russian Modernist prose of the 1920s due to a series of radical shifts in societal values with each subsequent change thwarting Russia’s volatile axiological hierarchy. Consequently a new literary type emerged and envy described as “wingless desire” by Russia’s chief poet Alexander Pushkin obtained new ownership as the envied became the envier.</P><P></P>