Explosive World of Tatyana N. Tolstaya's Fiction

Name: Explosive World of Tatyana N. Tolstaya's Fiction
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ISBN: 9781563248597

ISBN-10: 156324859X

ISBN-13: 9781563248597

Edition: 1997

Authors: Helena Goscilo

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Although Tatyana Tolstaya has become well known as a personality and commentator on current events, her widely popular fiction has received scant attention in the West. This first full-length study of her work initiates the reader into the colorful paradoxes of Tolstaya's fictional universe--a poetic realm ruled by language, to which the mysteries of life, imagination, memory, and death are subject. Helena Goscilo spotlights Tolstaya's rich interweaving of myth, folklore, songs, children's games, and literary texts into stories of stunning imaginative power. Tolstaya's stylistic pyrotechnics vividly illuminate immemorial concerns about life's meaning, the role of art and fantasy in the…

Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/31/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction



Paradise, Purgatory, and Post-Mortems



Language ï¿½ in Childhood



Tolstaian Love and Surface Text



The Eternal Feminine's Liebestod



Monsters ï¿½ Gender Stereotypes



Perspective in Tolstaia's ï¿½ Art



Fantasy and Fatality



Tolstaian Times



Tolstaian Tropes Conclusion