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Self and Story in Russian History

Edited by Laura Engelstein (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) and Stephanie Sandler Russians have often been characterized as people with souls rather than selves. Self and Story in Russian History challenges the portrayal of the Russian character as selfless, self-effacing, or self-torturing by exploring the texts through which Russians have defined themselves as private persons and shaped … Continued

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Through the Lens of the Reader: Explorations of European Narrative

By Lilian R. Furst (NHC Fellow, 1988–89) Through the Lens of the Reader is a sequence of ten essays exploring European narrative from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It covers a wide spectrum of authors ranging from Goethe through Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, George Eliot, Henry James to Rilke, Thomas Mann, and Kafka. The essays are … Continued