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Virginia Woolf and the Russian Point of View

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2009
ISBN
0230618731, 9780230618732
LCC
PR6045.O72 Z86745 2009
Open Library ID
OL22983100M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2996426 bytes)
Pages
265\282
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

In 1919, Virginia Woolf wrote, “The most inconclusive remarks upon modern English fiction can hardly avoid some mention of the Russian influence, and if the Russians are mentioned one runs the risk of feeling that to write of any fiction save theirs is a waste of time.” In Virginia Woolf and the Russian Point of View, Roberta Rubenstein examines Woolf’s responses to Russian literature over two decades and across the range of her fiction, essays, and book reviews. She argues that the Russian writers significantly influenced Woolf’s developing Modernist aesthetic and left lasting marks on her theory and practice of fiction. The book includes transcriptions of forty-eight pages of Woolf’s previously unpublished reading notes on Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev, and an unpublished review in which Chekhov and the Russians figure centrally.

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