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The Time before Death
Twentieth-Century Memoirs
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This collection of fifteen essays deals with the literary memoirs of major twentieth-century writers and focuses on the spiritual, physical and moral devastation of 20th century life. They are comparative and cross-cultural. There is no other collection of essays with this range brought under one cover.
Constantin V. Ponomareff is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, where he has taught Russian Language & Literature and Humanities for thirty-five years. He is the author of The Silenced Vision. An Essay in Modern European Fiction, Sergey Esenin; On the Dark Side of Russian Literature, 1709-1910; The Spiritual Geography of Modern Writing; In the Shadow of the Holocaust & Other Essays; One Less Hope. Essays on Twentieth-Century Russian Poets and The Curve of the Sacred (with Kenneth A. Bryson).
Introduction
The Metaphor of Loss in Vladimir Nabokovâs Speak, Memory
André Gideâs If It Die. The Creative Gamble
Günter Grassâs Beim Häuten der Zwiebel. The Final Battle with the Black Witch
Jean-Paul Sartreâs Words. On the Impact of Childhood
Boris Pasternakâs Safe Conduct and I Remember. A Charmed Life
Primo Leviâs Survival in Auschwitz and The Reawakening. A Tormented Spirit
Arthur Koestlerâs The Invisible Writing. Autobiography as Escape from the Self
Maxim Gorkyâs Childhood. Beyond Good and Evil
Octavio Pazâs The Itinerary. An Intellectual Journey. In Search of Identity
Stefan Zweigâs Die Welt von Gestern. A Bipolar Journey
Virginia Woolfâs Moments of Being. The Silence Within
Katherine Mansfieldâs Notebooks. The Chameleon Self
Christa Wolfâs One Day A Year, 1960-2000. The Fear of Self-Revelation
Nathalie Sarrauteâs Enfance. The Return to Life
Lidiya Chukovskayaâs To the Memory of Childhood. In Her Fatherâs Shadow
One Last Farmstead of Feeling
The Metaphor of Loss in Vladimir Nabokovâs Speak, Memory
André Gideâs If It Die. The Creative Gamble
Günter Grassâs Beim Häuten der Zwiebel. The Final Battle with the Black Witch
Jean-Paul Sartreâs Words. On the Impact of Childhood
Boris Pasternakâs Safe Conduct and I Remember. A Charmed Life
Primo Leviâs Survival in Auschwitz and The Reawakening. A Tormented Spirit
Arthur Koestlerâs The Invisible Writing. Autobiography as Escape from the Self
Maxim Gorkyâs Childhood. Beyond Good and Evil
Octavio Pazâs The Itinerary. An Intellectual Journey. In Search of Identity
Stefan Zweigâs Die Welt von Gestern. A Bipolar Journey
Virginia Woolfâs Moments of Being. The Silence Within
Katherine Mansfieldâs Notebooks. The Chameleon Self
Christa Wolfâs One Day A Year, 1960-2000. The Fear of Self-Revelation
Nathalie Sarrauteâs Enfance. The Return to Life
Lidiya Chukovskayaâs To the Memory of Childhood. In Her Fatherâs Shadow
One Last Farmstead of Feeling