Pierre Bezukhov Becomes (Really) Russian: Some Issues of National Identity in Tolstoy’s Narrative and Life Experience

This article seeks to analyze the weight and effects of the Western gaze (France’s in particular) in Tolstoy’s own life experience, and how it affected his literary production. The psychology of stigma provides some interesting insights as to how French opinions about Russia may have affected Tolsto...

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Autor: Adamovsky, Ezequiel Agustin
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/1888
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/1888
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Rusia
Tolstoy
Civilización
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Sumario:This article seeks to analyze the weight and effects of the Western gaze (France’s in particular) in Tolstoy’s own life experience, and how it affected his literary production. The psychology of stigma provides some interesting insights as to how French opinions about Russia may have affected Tolstoy’s identity as a Russian, thus conditioning his choice of “identities” for the characters of some of his novels (for example, that of Pierre Bezukhov in War and Peace).