Russian Montparnasse

Transnational Writing in Interwar Paris

  • Maria Rubins
Book

Part of the Palgrave Studies in European Literature book series (PMEL)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Russian Montparnasse as a Transnational Community

    1. Introduction: Russian Montparnasse as a Transnational Community
      Maria Rubins
      Pages 1-12

  3. Narrating the Self

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 13-13
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    2. In the “Waste Land” of Postwar Europe: Facing the Modern Condition
      Maria Rubins
      Pages 15-18
    3. Who Needs Art? The Human Document and Strategies of Self-Representation
      Maria Rubins
      Pages 19-38
    4. Human Document or Autofiction?
      Maria Rubins
      Pages 39-46

  4. Reading and Writing the “Paris Text”

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 47-47
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    2. “A Shared Homeland for All Foreigners”: The Paris Myth
      Maria Rubins
      Pages 49-54
    3. An Illusory City: “Denationalization” and the “Mission” of the Diaspora
      Maria Rubins
      Pages 55-61
    4. Below and Beyond: Alternative Paris
      Maria Rubins
      Pages 62-110

  5. Challenges of the Jazz Age

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 111-111
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    2. Post-Traumatic Hedonism
      Maria Rubins
      Pages 113-120
    3. Art Deco Fiction: Literary Reflections on the Seventh Art
      Maria Rubins
      Pages 121-144
    4. Anthologizing the Jazz Age: Gaïto Gazdanov’s The Spectre of Alexander Wolf
      Maria Rubins
      Pages 145-161

  6. The Canon Re-Defined: Reading the Russian Classics in Paris

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 163-164
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    2. “A ‘Third-Rate Rhymer’ … but a Poet of Genius”: Lermontov and Russian Montparnasse
      Maria Rubins
      Pages 165-177
    3. “Backyard” Literature: Vasily Rozanov’s Unlikely Posthumous Fame in Paris and Beyond
      Maria Rubins
      Pages 178-193
    4. Dialogue with Tolstoy
      Maria Rubins
      Pages 194-230

  7. Conclusion

    1. Conclusion
      Maria Rubins
      Pages 231-235
  8. Back Matter
    Pages 236-302
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About this book

Introduction

This book reassesses the role of Russian Montparnasse writers in the articulation of transnational modernism generated by exile. Examining their production from a comparative perspective, it demonstrates that their response to urban modernity transcended the Russian master narrative and resonated with broader aesthetic trends in interwar Europe.

Keywords

Russian Montparnasse interwar literature modern European literature Europe fiction Modernism

Authors and affiliations

  • Maria Rubins
    • 1
  1. 1.University College LondonUK

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