public reading of diary as literary trope

[Helen Halva]

There are some similarities in a 1920 story by Boris Pil'njak, /При 
дверях /(Pri dverjakh), usually translated as "At the Gates," which also 
concerns the reading (and purchasing) of a diary, but this may not be 
the one. 

Helen Halva


Gabriella Safran wrote:
> 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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