Russian Montparnasse Transnational Writing in Interwar Paris [Hardcover]

This book reassesses the role of Russian Montparnasse writers in the articulation of transnational modernism generated by exile. Examining their production from a comparative perspective, it demonstrates that their response to urban modernity transcended the Russian master narrative and resonated with broader aesthetic trends in interwar Europe.This monograph explores the transnational Modernism practiced by the younger generation, sometimes dubbed the unnoticed generation, of Russian emigre writers in interwar Paris. & Scholars of comparative literature or the French and Anglo-American literature of the interwar period will benefit from this work as much as will Russian literature specialists. Nabokov scholars will also find considerable comparative context and discussion of some of the literary debates ongoing in the emigre journals. (Luke Franklin, Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 60 (2), 2016)

Maria Rubins teaches Russian and Comparative literature at University College London, UK. She has published extensively on Russian literature, Franco-Russian cultural relations, exile, Russian ?migr? literature, bilingual and transnational writing, and contemporary Francophone fiction. She is the author of Ecphrasis in Parnasse and Acmeism: Comparative Visions of Poetry and Poetics (2000), editor of reference editions and annotated volumes of Russian ?migr? prose, and translator into Russian of French and English authors, including Ir?ne N?mirovsky, Judith Gautier and Elizabeth Gaskell.