"Who, what am I?"
Subtitle: Tolstoy struggles to narrate the self
By: Irina Paperno
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780801453342
Subjects: Autobiography; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Authorship; Self in literature; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Russian prose literature
Description: "An account of Tolstoy's lifelong attempt to find adequate ways to represent the self, to probe its limits and, ultimately, to arrive at an identity not based on the bodily self and its accumulated life experience. This book guides readers through the voluminous, highly personal nonfiction writings that Tolstoy produced from the 1850s until his death in 1910"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-221) and index.