The Author as Hero: Self and Tradition in Bulgakov, Pasternak, and Nabokov
by Weir, Justin

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An original reading of three famous novels reveals a significant shift in the Russian tradition of psychological prose Justin Weir develops a persuasive analysis of the complex relationship between authorial self-reflection and literary tradition in three of the most famous Russian novels of the first half of the twentieth century: Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, and Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift. All three novelists respond to a dual crisis, according to Weir: the general modernist destabilization of identity, and the estrangement from literary... read more
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