 | “Who, What Am I?”: Tolstoy Struggles to Narrate the Self Subjects: Tolstoy Leo graf 1828–1910 -- Criticism and interpretation; Russian prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Autobiography -- Authorship; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Self in literature; 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. 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 . |
