Russkiĭ Monparnas
Subtitle: parizhskai︠a︡ proza 1920-1930-kh godov v kontekste transnat︠s︡ionalʹnogo modernizma
By: M. Rubins = Russian Montparnasse : transnational writing in interwar Paris / Maria Rubins
Series: Nauchnai︠a︡ biblioteka; Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. Nauchnoe prilozhenie -- vyp. 168; Nauchnai͡a biblioteka; Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie -- vyp. 168.
Publisher: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Moskva
Language: rus
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9785444806821
Subjects: Russian literature; History and criticism; Exiles' writings, Russian; Russians; Intellectual life; French influences
Other titles: Parizhskai︠a︡ proza 1920-1930-kh godov v kontekste transnat︠s︡ionalʹnogo modernizma; Russian Montparnasse :
Work titles: Russian Montparnasse
Description: This book is a case study in transnational modernist literature generated by exile, dislocation and cross-cultural exchanges, focusing on the younger writers of the interwar Russian Parisian diaspora, known as Russian Montparnasse. Maria Rubins argues that their hybrid, bicultural and bilingual writing transcended the Russian national master narrative, anticipating more recent diasporic tendencies. The book sets the Russian Montparnasse corpus into trans-cultural and intertextual dialogues with key Western and Russian texts to demonstrate that their artistic response to the main challenges of urban modernity and cultural rupture resonated with broader aesthetic trends in interwar Europe. By systematically reassessing the role of Russian Montparnasse in the articulation of modernism, this study expands our knowledge of the evolution of the transnational literary canon, contributes to the academic debate about national vs. transnational analytical approaches to bicultural artistic production, and challenges the conventional status of language as the chief marker of literary affiliation.
Notes: Translated from English.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-316) and index.