Irina Paperno: 3 books
Stories of the Soviet Experience
Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Beginning with glasnost in the late 1980s and continuing into the present, scores of personal accounts of life under Soviet rule, written throughout its history, have been published in Russia, marking the end of an epoch. In a major new work on private life and personal writings, Irina Paperno explores...
Tchernychevski et l'âge du réalisme
Essai de sémiotique des comportements
Language: French
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Nikolaï Tchernychevski (1828-1889), personnage d’une importance colossale en Russie, encore bien trop méconnu en Occident, est resté dans l’histoire comme l’auteur de Que faire ? (1863). Le roman prétendait fournir un « guide dans la vie », sur lequel les jeunes radicaux pourraient modeler...
"Who, What Am I?"
Tolstoy Struggles to Narrate the Self
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
"God only knows how many diverse, captivating impressions and thoughts evoked by these impressions... pass in a single day. If it were only possible to render them in such a way that I could easily read myself and that others could read me as I do..." Such was the desire of the young Tolstoy. Although...