Autobiographies 20th century

[Elena Gapova]

Dear Nicole,

you might find the following books useful.

1. Ирина Савкина. "Пишу себя..." Автодокументальные женские тексты в русской литературе первой половины XIX века. Electronic dissertation. Tampere: University of Tampere, 2001. С. 10. http://acta.uta.fi/pdf/951-44-5059-0.pdf
I personally think this is a wonderful book, though (as a dissertation) it was never published as a book. The author also published a paper on the autobiography of Nadezhda Durova: Sui generis: мужественное и женственное в автобиографических записках Надежды Дуровой// О муже(N)ственности. Ркд. С. Ушакиню М.: НЛО, 2002ю

2. A very recent publication: О. А. Бембель-Дедок. Воспоминания. Предисловие Е. Гаповой. – Мн: Пропилеи, 2006. 
This is an autobiography of a woman-sculptor (who is better known as "the wife of a famous sculptor of the Stalinist period who made the famous bust of Nikolay Gastello in 1943"). The book is published under the headline Великая эпоха: женское свидетельство and covers her childhood in Belarusian Gomel in the 1920s, then her studies at the Academia Hudozhestv in Leningrad and artistic  debates of the 1930-s, and her life under occupation in Minsk, where she rescued a Jewish girl form the Minsk getto. More info on the book: http://gender-ehu.org/?97_2


Sincerely,

e.g.

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