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Russian Montparnasse

Transnational Writing in Interwar Paris

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Maria Rubins

    1. University College London, UK

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

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  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

  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

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.

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This monograph explores the transnational Modernism practiced by the younger generation, sometimes dubbed the ‘unnoticed generation,’ of Russian emigre writers in interwar Paris. … Scholars of comparative literature or the French and Anglo-American literature of the interwar period will benefit from this work as much as will Russian literature specialists. Nabokov scholars will also find considerable comparative context and discussion of some of the literary debates ongoing in the emigre journals.” (Luke Franklin, Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 60 (2), 2016)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University College London, UK

    Maria Rubins

About the author

Maria Rubins teaches Russian and Comparative literature at University College London, UK. She has published extensively on Russian literature, Franco-Russian cultural relations, exile, Russian émigré literature, bilingual and transnational writing, and contemporary Francophone fiction. She is the author of Ecphrasis in Parnasse and Acmeism: Comparative Visions of Poetry and Poetics (2000), editor of reference editions and annotated volumes of Russian émigré prose, and translator into Russian of French and English authors, including Irène Némirovsky, Judith Gautier and Elizabeth Gaskell.

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