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: Gaito 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.
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Russian literature -- France -- Paris -- History and criticism
Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Exiles' writings, Russian -- France -- Paris -- History and criticism
Russians -- France -- Paris -- Intellectual life -- 20th century