Russian Montparnasse

Chapter 1 Introduction: Russian Montparnasse as a Transnational Community

Chapter 2 In the “Waste Land” of Postwar Europe: Facing the Modern Condition

Chapter 3 Who Needs Art? The Human Document and Strategies of Self-Representation

Chapter 5 “A Shared Homeland for All Foreigners”: The Paris Myth

Chapter 6 An Illusory City: “Denationalization” and the “Mission” of the Diaspora

Chapter 7 Below and Beyond: Alternative Paris

Chapter 8 Post-Traumatic Hedonism

Chapter 9 Art Deco Fiction: Literary Reflections on the Seventh Art

Chapter 10 Anthologizing the Jazz Age: Gaïto Gazdanov’s The Spectre of Alexander Wolf

Chapter 11 “A ‘Third-Rate Rhymer’ … but a Poet of Genius”: Lermontov and Russian Montparnasse

Chapter 12 “Backyard” Literature: Vasily Rozanov’s Unlikely Posthumous Fame in Paris and Beyond

Chapter 13 Dialogue with Tolstoy

Chapter 14 Conclusion