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The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Russian novels were initially influenced by the parallel traditions of novel-writing in Britain, France, and Germany, but the Russian novel exists as its own tradition and asserts its own identity as a literary form.To read a Russian novel often requires the fortitude to traverse many hundreds of pages and to consider profound political, philosophical, and metaphysical questions. The best-known Russian novels are also compulsively readable, providing a fascinating window into Russian culture and society at different historical periods. Readers of Russian novels marvel at the fictional world-building of innovative writers who created compelling characters and settings, realized through brilliant storytelling and stylistic virtuosity. Major Russian novelists such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Nabokov continue to be popular and to carry intellectual prestige. But the tradition of the Russian novel extends well beyond these familiar authors and their works. This Oxford Handbook draws from a valuable tradition of critical commentary dating back to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and builds upon important earlier scholarship but significantly updates our understanding of the Russian novel: showcasing newer interpretive paradigms, considering works outside the canon, and extending the story of the Russian novel through Soviet times and up to the varied literary landscape of the present. The chapters also explore an increasingly expansive view of what constitutes a Russian novel, part of ongoing efforts to communicate our evolving understanding of the tradition.
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One hundred years after his death, Tolstoy still inspires controversy with his notoriously complex narrative strategies. This original book explores how and why Tolstoy has mystified interpreters and offers a new look at his most famous works of fiction.
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An original reading of three famous novels reveals a significant shift in the Russian tradition of psychological prose; Justin Weir develops a persuasive analysis of the complex relationship between authorial self-reflection and literary tradition in three of the most famous Russian novels of the first half of the twentieth century: Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago, and Vladimir Nabokov’s The Gift. All three novelists respond to a dual crisis, according to Weir: the general modernist destabilization of identity, and the estrangement from literary tradition that followed the Russian Revolution. Using various self-reflexive literary devices (such as the mise en abyme), these authors reincorporate literary tradition into their works and, in the process, generate a distinctive view of identity. Character, in these novels, is neither the outcome of a continuous process of Building, nor a direct function of the individual’s relation to larger historical events. Rather, character is defined in the act of writing itself, so that every hero must be a sort of author. The outcome is a new novelistic art that focuses on the identity of the artist as revealed through his writing. With its innovative interpretation of these novels and its compelling historical, cultural, and theoretical insights, The Author as Hero offers a new view of an important moment in the evolution of Russian literature.