How it was done in Paris : Russian émigré literature and French modernism / Leonid Livak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Livak, Leonid.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian literature--France--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

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

Exiles' writings, Russian.

Comparative literature--Russian and French.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--French and Russian.

Russian literature--French influences.

France.

Physical Description:

xi, 316 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2003]

Summary:

Here, reintroduced into literary circulation, is an ignored yet rich and original page in Russian literary history--the "unnoticed generation" of Russian writers who took up residence in France after the Bolshevik coup of 1917. Leonid Livak analyzes the position of these writers in the context of French modernist literature, examining the ways in which French literary life influenced emigre artistic identities and oeuvre. The book challenges commonly accepted notions of emigre isolation from French literature and culture and is instrumental in reaching a fuller understanding of the cultural mechanisms involved in the effort by an expatriate community to carry on a creative existence.

Contents:

Exilic experience as a cultural construct

The surrealist adventure of Boris Poplavskii

The prodigal children of Marcel Proust

The esthetics of disintegration

The art of writing a novel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-302) and index.

ISBN:

0299185109

0299185141

OCLC:

51003975