Author : Leonid Livak
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0299185141
How it was Done in Paris by Leonid Livak Pdf
Here, reintroduced into literary circulation, is an ignored yet rich and original page in Russian literary history--the "unnoticed generation" of Russian writers who took up residence in France after the Bolshevik coup of 1917. Leonid Livak analyzes the position of these writers in the context of French modernist literature, examining the ways in which French literary life influenced émigré artistic identities and oeuvre. The book challenges commonly accepted notions of émigré isolation from French literature and culture and is instrumental in reaching a fuller understanding of the cultural mechanisms involved in the effort by an expatriate community to carry on a creative existence.