Who, What Am I?
ISBN: 9780801454967
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Self in literature.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; Autobiography; Russian prose 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 .

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