"Who, What Am I?" : : Tolstoy Struggles to Narrate the Self / / Irina Paperno.
"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....
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| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. “So That I Could Easily Read Myself”: Tolstoy’s Early Diaries
- Interlude: Between Personal Documents and Fiction
- Chapter 2. “To Tell One’s Faith Is Impossible. . . . How to Tell That Which I Live By. I’ll Tell You, All the Same. . . .” Tolstoy in His Correspondence
- Chapter 3. Tolstoy’s Confession : What Am I?
- Chapter 4. “To Write My Life ”: Tolstoy Tries, and Fails, to Produce a Memoir or Autobiography
- Chapter 5. “What Should We Do Then?”: Tolstoy on Self and Other
- Chapter 6. “I Felt a Completely New Liberation from Personality”: Tolstoy’s Late Diaries
- Appendix: Russian Quotations
- Notes
- Index