Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. INTRODUCTION. Diversity of Discourse: Autobiographical Statements in Theory and Praxis 1
6. CHAPTER 1. Rozanov and Autobiography: The Case of Vasily Vasilievich 36
7. CHAPTER 2. Alexey Remizov’s Later Autobiographical Prose 52
8. CHAPTER 3. Andrey Bely’s Memories of Fiction 66
9. CHAPTER 4. Autobiography and History: Osip Mandelstam’s Noise of Time 99
10. CHAPTER 5. Boris Pasternak’s Safe Conduct 114
11. CHAPTER 6. The Imagination of Failure: Fiction and Autobiography in the Work of Yury Olesha 123
12. CHAPTER 9 Yury Trifonov’s The House on the Embankment. Fiction or Autobiography? 172
13. CHAPTER 10. The Rhetoric of Nadezhda Mandelstam’s Hope Against Hope 193
14. CHAPTER 11. Lydia Ginzburg and the Fluidity of Genre 207
15. CHAPTER 12. Roman Jakobson: The Autobiography of a Scholar 217
16. CHAPTER 13. In Search of the Right Milieu: Eduard Limonov’s Kharkov Cycle 227
17. CHAPTER 14. Literary Selves: The Tertz-Sinyavsky Dialogue 238
18. Select Bibliography 261
19. Index 279
20. Studies of the Harriman Institute 288