public reading of diary as literary trope

[Natasha Randall]

Rousseau's Confessions sort of fit that description...

Natasha Randall


On 21 Feb 2009, at 17:55, 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
>
> -- 
> 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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