Janko Lavrin: 7 books

This volume contains two concise works by the innovative twentieth-century literary critic Janko Lavrin, offering accessible and thoughtful introductions to the two greatest Russian novelists. It provides a perfect point of access into the often bewildering world of Russian literature, and the troubled...

Janko Lavrin's influential biography of Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1948, analyses the bond between Nietzsche's personal fate on the one hand and the trend of his thought on the other, set against the background of contemporary crisis typical of mankind in general.

In this book, first published in 1943, Janko Lavrin provides an overview of the development of the Russian novel by placing the great Russian novelists – Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Gorky, Gogol – in relation to their native literature and their social, political and cultural backgrounds. An...

This book, first published in 1926, aimed to introduce to English readers to a great and complex foreign writer in as simple terms as possible. As this was the first extensive study of Gogol in English, the author chiefly considered the general characteristics of the man and his work. This book will be of interest to students of literature.

This book, first published in 1950, could best be described as a combination of literary, psychological and social criticism. Considerable space is allotted to the personal inner drama of Ibsen, which provides not only a clue to his art but shows how most of his themes inevitably grew out of the other....

In this 1922 volume, the author applies his noteworthy psycho-critical methods to a study of Friedrich Nietzsche as exemplar of modern consciousness. At the time, the book was called “the standard short work on the subject.”

Published in 1921, this "psycho-critical study" casts Ibsen as representative of modern consciousness.  Chapters include "Ibsen as Artist," "The Strength of his Weakness," "The Drama of the Moral Superman," "The Tragedy of the Will," and "The 'Sickly Conscience.'"