Author: Alexander Herzen

Cited by

• Martin Amis (1)
  • IN: The Pregnant Widow (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the departing world leaves behind it, not an heir, but a pregnant widow. Between the death of the one and the birth of the other, much water will flow by, a long night of chaos and desolation will pass.
    FROM: From the Other Shore, (1851), Book, Russia