Some material included in this book has previously appeared in the form of articles, essays and book chapters.
Parts of Chapter 3 have been published as âThe Veteranâs Wounded Body Before the Mirror: the Dialectic of Wholeness and Disintegration in Andreï Makineâs Proseâ, Journal of War and Culture Studies, 1.2 (2008), 175â88; and as âLong Live the Kommunalka! The Tension between Postmodern Poetics and Post-Soviet Nostalgia in the Work of Andreï Makineâ, Twentieth Century Communism: A Journal of International History, 11 (Autumn 2016), 97â113.
Parts of Chapter 4 have been included in the book chapter âThe Jew as St Christopher: The Holocaust and the Participation of Soviet Jews in Russiaâs Great Patriotic War Effort in the Oeuvre of Andreï Makineâ, in Mnemosyne and Mars: Artistic and Cultural Representations of Twentieth-Century Europe at War, ed. by Peter Tame, Dominique Jeanerrod and Manuel Bragança (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014), pp. 343â60.
Parts of Chapter 5 have appeared in âOn connaît la musique: La vie culturelle au temps du siège de Leningrad dans La Vie dâun homme inconnu dâAndreï Makineâ, Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature, 39.1 (2015), 142â62.
Finally, some of the ideas included in Chapter 1 have already been explored in âUne histoire vraie: La Terre et le ciel de Jacques Dorme dâAndreï Makine comme exemple de métafiction historiographiqueâ, Romanica Wratislaviensia, 61 (2014), 121â38, and âA False Document: Andreï Makineâs Le Testament français and the Postmodern Theory of Historyâ, Irish Journal of French Studies, 14.1 (2014), 137â59.