Contents

pp ix-x

Acknowledgments

pp xi-xii

Note on transliteration, citation and translation

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-10

PART ONE

pp 11-12

1 - Narrative and the everyday: myth, image, sign, icon, life

pp 13-43

2 - The development of byt in nineteenth-century Russian literature

pp 44-80

PART TWO

pp 81-82

3 - Enacting the present: Chekhov, art and the everyday

pp 83-109

4 - Fedor Sologub's aesthetics of narrative excess

pp 110-138

PART THREE

pp 139-140

5 - The struggle with byt in Belyi's Kotik Letaev and The Christened Chinaman

pp 141-167

6 - Breaking the circle of the self: Vasilii Rozanov's discourse of pure intimacy

pp 168-193

7 - At the “I” of the storm: the iconic self in Remizov's Whirlwind Russia

pp 194-219

Conclusion

pp 220-234

Notes

pp 235-277

Bibliography

pp 278-288

Index

pp 289-295

CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE

pp 296-298