Marta-Laura Cenedese works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) and the department of Comparative Literature, University of Turku, Finland. She studied at the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, Italy, Sciences-Po Paris, France, and completed her doctoral degree at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her research deals with twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, narrative hermeneutics, cultural memory, multimodal storytelling and affective research practices.

• 1. Introduction; Creative Encounters over Time and Space: Writers, Readers, and Researchers.- 2. From Russia to France, via England: Suite française, War and Peace, and E. M. Forster.- 3. Departing from Tolstoy: Polyphony and Monologism.- 4. Beyond Tolstoy: Music.- 5. Dreams from Underground.- 5. The Abject.- 6. An Anthropology of Suffering.- 7. La Vie de Tchekhov: A Romanced Biography.- 8. La Vie de Tchekhov in the 21st Century.- 9. Conclusion: A Russian Suite.