public reading of diary as literary trope

[Gabriella Safran]

Dear Colleagues,
I'm writing about a 1910 story in which someone's diary is discovered and
read aloud to an audience, including those whom the writer had been
privately criticizing.  This scene feels familiar to me, as though I had
read something like it elsewhere, but right now I can't think of any
examples of it in Russian or European literature.  Can any of you think of
an example of this?
gratefully,
Gabriella

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Gabriella Safran
Associate Professor
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305

tel. 650-723-4414
fax 650-725-0011
gsafran at stanford.edu

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