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Book SynopsisThe fifteen essays in this volume explore the extraordinary range and diversity of the autobiographical mode in twentieth-century Russian literature from various critical perspectives. They will whet the appetite of readers interested in penetrating beyond the canonical texts of Russian literature. The introduction focuses on the central issues and
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xi*INTRODUCTION. Diversity of Discourse: Autobiographical Statements in Theory and Praxis, pg. 1*CHAPTER 1. Rozanov and Autobiography: The Case of Vasily Vasilievich, pg. 36*CHAPTER 2. Alexey Remizov's Later Autobiographical Prose, pg. 52*CHAPTER 3. Andrey Bely's Memories of Fiction, pg. 66*CHAPTER 4. Autobiography and History: Osip Mandelstam's Noise of Time, pg. 99*CHAPTER 5. Boris Pasternak's Safe Conduct, pg. 114*CHAPTER 6. The Imagination of Failure: Fiction and Autobiography in the Work of Yury Olesha, pg. 123*CHAPTER 9 Yury Trifonov's The House on the Embankment. Fiction or Autobiography?, pg. 172*CHAPTER 10. The Rhetoric of Nadezhda Mandelstam's Hope Against Hope, pg. 193*CHAPTER 11. Lydia Ginzburg and the Fluidity of Genre, pg. 207*CHAPTER 12. Roman Jakobson: The Autobiography of a Scholar, pg. 217*CHAPTER 13. In Search of the Right Milieu: Eduard Limonov's Kharkov Cycle, pg. 227*CHAPTER 14. Literary Selves: The Tertz-Sinyavsky Dialogue, pg. 238*Select Bibliography, pg. 261*Index, pg. 279*Studies of the Harriman Institute, pg. 288
