How It Was Done in Paris: Russian Emigre Literature & French Modernism

by Leonid Livak

Here, reintroduced into literary circulation, is an ignored yet rich and original page in Russian literary history--the "unnoticed generation" of Russian writers who took up residence in France after the Bolshevik coup of 1917. Leonid Livak analyzes the position of these writers in the context of French modernist literature, examining the ways in which French literary life influenced migr artistic identities and oeuvre. The book challenges commonly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299185109
• ISBN13: 9780299185107
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"