An Obsession with History: Russian Writers Confront the Past - Paperback

by Andrew Baruch Wachtel (Author)

Providing a theoretical paradigm for understanding the relationship of history and literature in Russia, this book traces how major Russian writers of the past 200 years defined the nation's past through creating fictional and non-fictional works on historical themes.

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The author shows that, contrary to European practice, Russian writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--including Karamzin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Solzhenitsyn--felt it incumbent upon them to produce works on historical themes.