Dmitry I. Pisarev
Russian literary critic
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impact on Russian literature
- In Russia: Education and ideas
Its most extreme exponent was Dmitry I. Pisarev, who held that all art is useless and that the only aim of thinking people should be “to solve forever the unavoidable question of hungry and naked people.” In the last decades of the century the chief spokesman of social utilitarianism was…
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