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Transnational Tolstoy: Between the West and the World
Contributor(s): Foster Jr, John Burt (Author)
ISBN: 1441157700     ISBN-13: 9781441157706
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
OUR PRICE:   $36.05  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric
- Literary Criticism
Dewey: 808.042
LCCN: 2013002691
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.80 lbs) 208 pages
 
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Transnational Tolstoy renews and enhances our understanding of Tolstoy's fiction in the context of World Literature, a term that he himself used in What is Art? (1897). It offers a fresh perspective on Tolstoy's fiction as it connects with writers and works from outside his Russian context, including Stendhal, Flaubert, Goethe, Proust, Lampedusa and Mahfouz.

Foster provides an interlocking series of cross-cultural readings ranging from nineteenth-century Germany, France, and Italy through the rise of modernist fiction and the crisis of World War II, to the growth of a worldwide literary outlook from 1960 onward. He emphasizes Tolstoy's writings with the most consistent international resonance: War and Peace and Anna Karenina, two of the world's most compelling novels.

Transnational Tolstoy also discusses a shorter work, Hadji Murad. It shares the earlier novels' historical sweep, social breadth, and subtle interplay among a large cast of characters. Along with bringing Tolstoy's gifts to bear on a Muslim protagonist, it also represents his most sustained attempt at world literature.