How the Russians Read the French: Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy

by Priscilla Meyer

Book Overview

Russian writers of the nineteenth century were quite consciously creating a new national literary tradition. They saw themselves self-consciously through Western European eyes, at once admiring Europe and feeling inferior to it. This ambivalence was perhaps most keenly felt in relation to France, whose language and culture had shaped the world of the Russian aristocracy from the time of Catherine the Great. In How the Russians Read the French,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299229300
• ISBN13: 9780299229306
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"