The Explosive World of Tatyana N. Tolstaya's Fiction [Hardcover]

This study of the work of Tatyana N. Tolstaya initiates the reader into the paradoxes of her fictional universe: a poetic realm ruled by language, to which the mysteries of life, imagination, memory and death are subject.This study of the work of Tatyana N. Tolstaya initiates the reader into the paradoxes of her fictional universe: a poetic realm ruled by language, to which the mysteries of life, imagination, memory and death are subject.Introduction; Chapter 1 Paradise, Purgatory, and Post-Mortems: The Lapsarian Myth as Universal Rite of Passage; Chapter 2 Language and the Souls Dark Night in Childhood; Chapter 3 Tolstayan Love as Surface Text; Chapter 4 The Eternal Feminines Liebestod Transposed to Baser Clef; Chapter 5 Monsters Monomaniacal, Marital, and Medical: Tolstayas Regenerative Use of Gender Stereotypes; Chapter 6 Perspective in Tolstayas Wonderland of Art; Chapter 7 Fantasy and Fatality: Narrative as Creative and Killing Strategy; Chapter 8 Tolstayan Times: Traversals and Transfers; Chapter 9 Tolstayan Tropes: Perils, Pleasures, and Epiphanies; Postscript;USCopyright ? 1996 Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved.