Russian Montparnasse: Transnational Writing in Interwar Paris

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Russian Montparnasse as a Transnational Community....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
In the “Waste Land” of Postwar Europe: Facing the Modern Condition....Pages 15-18
Who Needs Art? The Human Document and Strategies of Self-Representation....Pages 19-38
Human Document or Autofiction?....Pages 39-46
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
“A Shared Homeland for All Foreigners”: The Paris Myth....Pages 49-54
An Illusory City: “Denationalization” and the “Mission” of the Diaspora....Pages 55-61
Below and Beyond: Alternative Paris....Pages 62-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Post-Traumatic Hedonism....Pages 113-120
Art Deco Fiction: Literary Reflections on the Seventh Art....Pages 121-144
Anthologizing the Jazz Age: Gaïto Gazdanov’s The Spectre of Alexander Wolf ....Pages 145-161
Front Matter....Pages 163-164
“A ‘Third-Rate Rhymer’ … but a Poet of Genius”: Lermontov and Russian Montparnasse....Pages 165-177
“Backyard” Literature: Vasily Rozanov’s Unlikely Posthumous Fame in Paris and Beyond....Pages 178-193
Dialogue with Tolstoy....Pages 194-230
Conclusion....Pages 231-235
Back Matter....Pages 236-302