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Book SynopsisThe Russian writer Lydia Ginzburg (1902-90) is best known for her Notes from the Leningrad Blockade and for influential critical studies, such as On Psychological Prose, investigating the problem of literary character in French and Russian novels and memoirs. Yet she viewed her most vital work to be the extensive prose fragments, composed for the d
Trade Review"Particularly welcome is the queer studies dimension of the volume... Those coming to Ginzburg's work for the first time will particularly appreciate the informative biography of the author at the beginning of the book"--Choice "Any student of the twentieth century and its traumas, let alone Soviet literary history, should find Van Buskirk's book of extreme interest and value."--Marat Grinberg, Russian Review
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii A Note about Spelling, Transliteration, and Archival References ix Introduction 1 1 Writing the Self after the Crisis of Individualism: Distancing and Moral Evaluation 26 2 The Poetics of Desk-Drawer Notebooks 69 3 Marginality in the Mainstream, Lesbian Love in the Third Person 109 4 Passing Characters 161 5 Transformations of Experience: Around and Behind Notes of a Blockade Person 196 Conclusion: Sustaining a Human Image 222 Notes 231 Bibliography 323 Index 343
