An edition of Russian Montparnasse (2015)

Russian Montparnasse

transnational writing in interwar Paris

Russian Montparnasse
Maria Rubins, Maria Rubins
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An edition of Russian Montparnasse (2015)

Russian Montparnasse

transnational writing in interwar Paris

This book is a case study in transnational modernist literature generated by exile, dislocation and cross-cultural exchanges, focusing on the younger writers of the interwar Russian Parisian diaspora, known as Russian Montparnasse. Maria Rubins argues that their hybrid, bicultural and bilingual writing transcended the Russian national master narrative, anticipating more recent diasporic tendencies. The book sets the Russian Montparnasse corpus into trans-cultural and intertextual dialogues with key Western and Russian texts to demonstrate that their artistic response to the main challenges of urban modernity and cultural rupture resonated with broader aesthetic trends in interwar Europe. By systematically reassessing the role of Russian Montparnasse in the articulation of modernism, this study expands our knowledge of the evolution of the transnational literary canon, contributes to the academic debate about national vs. transnational analytical approaches to bicultural artistic production, and challenges the conventional status of language as the chief marker of literary affiliation.

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English
Pages
302

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Russian Montparnasse: Transnational Writing in Interwar Paris
2015, Palgrave Macmillan
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Table of Contents

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 : literary reflections on the seveth art
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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-289) and index.

Series
Palgrave studies in modern European literature, Palgrave studies in modern European literature

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
891.709/944361
Library of Congress
PG3520.F7 R83 2015, PN1-6790PN770-PN779P

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 302 pages
Number of pages
302

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26967057M
ISBN 10
1137508000
ISBN 13
9781137508003
LCCN
2015018330
OCLC/WorldCat
909320942

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