An anti-nihilistic novel is a form of novel from late 19th-century Russian literature, that came as a result of the disillusionment in the Russian nihilist...

true Anti-nihilistic novel, a genre of 19th century Russian literature This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Anti-nihilism...

philosophical novel were merged into a single larger scale project, which became Demons. As work progressed, the liberal and nihilistic characters began...

harsher. He was found dead of scurvy in his cell on 21 November 1882. Anti-nihilistic novel Cynicism Narodniks Narodnaya Volya Nihilist Faction Occasionally...

time, negation is the most useful of all". Despite Turgenev's own anti-nihilistic leanings, many of his readers likewise took up the name of nihilist...

This incident was fictionalised by writer Fyodor Dostoevsky in his anti-nihilistic novel Demons (published three years later) in which the character Pyotr...

critic Vasily Bazanov [ru], when commenting on Nikolai Leskov's anti-nihilistic novels: "Русские «нигилисты» в руках польских агентов, судя по роману Лескова...

West is a 1985 epic historical novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, classified under the Western, or sometimes the anti-Western, genre. McCarthy's fifth...

Leskov editions were obviously incomplete: one of his political "anti-nihilistic" novels At Daggers Drawn, was missing, included essays and letters carefully...

trapped in a difficult situation and making choices out of desperation or nihilistic moral systems. Visual elements included low-key lighting, striking use...

essentially nihilistic work" and "consistently hostile, contemptuous, forcefully hateful [...] without joy." Robin Lydenberg suggests that the novel advocates...

metaphysical and nihilistic thought is decadent because of its confirmation from 'others' (apart from oneself) based on ideas of a nihilistic God. The extreme...

semi-parody religious movement called Bokononism, which combines irreverent, nihilistic, and cynical observations about life and God's will; an emphasis on coincidences...

Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace. Categorized as an encyclopedic novel, Infinite Jest is featured in Time magazine's...

unpleasant, alternatively horrid and dull, enlivened only by regular nihilistic drinking binges. Equally, it acknowledges the serious flaws in allied...

nihilistic way." Wang Anyi’s The Song of Everlasting Sorrow tells the story of a gorgeous Shanghai woman named Wang Qiyao. The timeline of the novel spans...

Jason Paul Collum points to the absence of Michael Myers and the film's nihilistic ending as reasons why the film dissatisfied reviewers and audiences alike...

described as nihilistic. Palahniuk has rejected this label, stating that he is a romantic, and that his works are mistakenly seen as nihilistic because they...

versus Soft section) The anti-genre, rather implies a more direct and nihilistic attack on the foundations of its medium. The anti-genre is in a perpetual...

world and his nihilistic worldview might be seen as causes of his social alienation or consequences of it. Despite its title, the novel does not so much...

particularly well. Her character is portrayed as hedonistic and explicitly nihilistic, making sexual satisfaction a priority and seemingly having little regard...

experiences" of actual fights like the Narrator at first, he manifests a nihilistic attitude of rejecting and destroying institutions and value systems. His...

aesthetics' doctrine, panned Alexey Pisemsky's and Nikolai Leskov's anti-nihilistic novels and published critical essays which were "not dry and dour book...

the context of political turmoil, Bowles’s nihilistic and misanthropic outlook persists throughout the novel. Literary critic Conrad Knickerbocker observes:...

prestigious Prix Goncourt for which it was the favourite. The novel became an instant "nihilistic classic" and was mostly praised for the boldness of its ideas...

audience living through a recession, diametrically opposed to The Thing's nihilistic and bleak tone. The film found an audience when released on home video...

In a broader sense, the "pervasively gritty, bleak, pessimistic, or nihilistic view of the world" characteristic of grimdark fiction is found in much...

to the end of the road", and that the second novel was a "nihilistic tragedy" paired with the "nihilistic comedy" of the first. Barth also sees the book...

in his fiction and non-fiction has been described as pessimistic and nihilistic. The Washington Post called him "the best kept secret in contemporary...

protagonists of transgressive fiction may seem mentally ill, anti-social, or nihilistic. The genre deals extensively with taboo subject matters such as...