Facts and their existence in memoirs (Odakhovski - Zhirkevich - Tolstoy) Cover Image

Факты и их бытование в мемуаристике (Одаховский - Жиркевич - Толстой)
Facts and their existence in memoirs (Odakhovski - Zhirkevich - Tolstoy)

Author(s): Joanna Piotrowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie

Summary/Abstract: The article presents essential problems connected with analysis and interpretation of memoirs.While discussing the memoirs about Leo Tolstoy by Julian Odakhovski which were recordedand published by Alexander Zhirkevich, as well as appraised as unreliable by Tolstoy, we posesuch questions as e.g. the role of the publisher, the point of view of the memoirist and of theprotagonist, a fact in such autobiographical text. Special attention is given to possible reasons forTolstoy’s reaction to the memoirs by Odakhovski.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: XVI
  • Page Range: 161-175
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Russian