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Russian Montparnasse :

1137508019

134957175X

9781137508010

9781349571758

b546741

Russian Montparnasse :

[Book]

transnational writing in interwar Paris

Maria Rubins.

Basingstoke

Palgrave Macmillan

2015

Palgrave studies in modern European literature.

Introduction: Russian Montparnasse as a transnational community --;Narrating the self: the existential code of inter-war literature. In the "waste land" of postwar Europe: facing the modern condition --;Who needs art? the human document and strategies of self-representation --;Human document or autofiction? --;Reading and writing the "Paris text". "A shared homeland for all foreigners": the Paris myth --;An illusory city: denationalization and the "mission" of the diaspora --;Below and beyond: alternative Paris --;Challenges of the Jazz Age. Post-traumatic hedonism --;Art Deco fiction --;Anthologizing the Jazz Age: Gaïto Gazdanov's The spectre of Alexander Wolf --;The canon re-defined: reading the Russian classics in Paris. "A third-rate rhymer" but a poet of genius: Lermontov and Russian Montparnasse --;"Backyard" literature: Vasily Rozanov's unlikely posthumous fame in Paris and beyond --;Dialogue with Tolstoy --;Conclusion.

This book reassesses the role of Russian Montparnasse writers in the articulation of transnational modernism generated by exile. Examining their production from a comparative perspective, it demonstrates that their response to urban modernity transcended the Russian master narrative and resonated with broader aesthetic trends in interwar Europe.

Exiles' writings, Russian -- France -- Paris -- History and criticism.

Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Russian literature -- France -- Paris -- History and criticism.

Maria Rubins.

Maria Rubins

[Book]

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