public reading of diary as literary trope

[Irina Shevelenko]

Gabriella,

Depending on to what literary circle the author belongs, there might be a hint here at Kuzmin's reading his diary to his friends and acquaintances, including various rumors circulating about what the diary says about whom.

Irina Shevelenko
idshevelenko at wisc.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Gabriella Safran <gsafran at STANFORD.EDU>
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 08:55:31 -0800
Subject: [SEELANGS] public reading of diary as literary trope

> 
> 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
> 
> -- 
> 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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