This book brings together Virginia Woolf's essays and book reviews on Russianliterature; her unpublished reading notes on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Turgenev; and new and insightful scholarly commentary concerning her response to each of the major Russian writers. INDICE: - Introduction: Russophilia PART I: DOSTOEVSKY - 'THE DIM AND POPULOUS UNDERWORLD' - The Possessed - holograph reading notes (1928) - On The Possessed, from 'The Psychologists,' in 'Phases of Fiction' - Holograph Draft (1928) - PART II: CHEKHOV - 'AN ASTONISHING SENSE OF FREEDOM' - 'Tchekhov on Pope' - Holograph Draft (1925) - 'Tchekhov on Pope' - Typescript - 'The Rape of the Lock' - Holograph Reading Notes (1925) - PART III: TOLSTOY - 'GENIUS IN THE RAW' Anna Karenina I - Holograph Reading Notes (1909-1914?) - Anna Karenina II- Holograph Reading Notes - War and Peace - Holograph Reading Notes (1928-1929) - PART IV: TURGENEV - 'A PASSION FOR ART' - Turgenev's Fiction - Holograph Reading Notes (1933) - Conclusion - 'everything is the proper stuff of fiction'
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61873-2
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 13/10/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés