How the Russians Read the French: Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy by Priscilla Meyer

How the Russians Read the French: Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy

Priscilla Meyer

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Russian writers of the nineteenth century were quite consciously creating a new national literary tradition. They saw themselves self-consciously through Western European eyes, at once admiring Europe and feeling inferior to it. This ambivalence w...

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