'Who, What Am I?' - Tolstoy Struggles to Narrate the Self

Irina Paperno teaches Russian literature and intellectual history at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Stories of the Soviet Experience: Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams and Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky's Russia.

Summary

A deeply-informed account of Tolstoy's lifelong attempt to find adequate ways to represent the self, to probe its limits and, ultimately, to arrive at an identity not based on the bodily self and its accumulated life experience.

Product details

• Authors: Irina Paperno
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781501725159
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-2515-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies