public reading of diary as literary trope

[Gabriella Safran]

Great - thank you!
Gabriella

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Helen Halva <hhalva at mindspring.com> wrote:

> 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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Gabriella Safran
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Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Stanford University
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