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"Who, what am I?" : Tolstoy struggles to narrate the self / Irina Paperno.

Author: Paperno, Irina, author.

ImprintIthaca : Cornell University Press, 2014.

Descriptionx, 229 pages ; 24 cm

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-221) and index.

Note:"An 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. This book guides readers through the voluminous, highly personal nonfiction writings that Tolstoy produced from the 1850s until his death in 1910"-- Publisher's Web site.



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Paperno, Irina, author.
Subject:
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Subject:
Russian prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Autobiography -- Authorship.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Self in literature.