9781137508003

1137508000

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.

1900 > 1999

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.

Russian literature > French influences.

Russian literature > French influences.

Russians > Intellectual life.

Paris (France) > Intellectual life > 20th century.

France > Paris.