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"Who, What Am I?" : Tolstoy Struggles to Narrate the Self /

"An account of Tolstoy's lifelong attempt to find adequate ways to represent the self, to probe its limits and, ultimately, to arrive at an identity not based on the bodily self and its accumulated life experience. This book guides readers through the voluminous, highly personal nonfiction...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paperno, Irina (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. "So That I Could Easily Read Myself": Tolstoy's Early Diaries
  • Interlude: Between Personal Documents and Fiction
  • Chapter 2. "To Tell One's Faith Is Impossible. ... How to Tell That Which I Live By. I'll Tell You, All the Same. . . ." Tolstoy in His Correspondence
  • Chapter 3. Tolstoy's Confession : What Am I?
  • Chapter 4. "To Write My Life ": Tolstoy Tries, and Fails, to Produce a Memoir or Autobiography
  • Chapter 5. "What Should We Do Then?": Tolstoy on Self and Other
  • Chapter 6. "I Felt a Completely New Liberation from Personality": Tolstoy's Late Diaries
  • Appendix: Russian Quotations
  • Notes
  • Index.