public reading of diary as literary trope

[Sara Stefani]

In a broader European context, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's "Les liaisons
dangereuses" springs to mind, which ends with Valmont getting revenge on
Mme. Merteuil by making the snipey letters she has written about their
acquaintances public knowledge.

Sara Stefani

2009/2/21 Gabriella Safran <gsafran at gmail.com>

> 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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