Beth Holmgren ed The Russian Memoir...

Beth Holmgren ed The Russian Memoir: History and Literature. Evanston: Northwestern UP 2003 221 pp ISBN 0-8101-1930-7 $2795

Is memoir a genre and on what account does the ground where it flourishes appear to be culture-specific? There are no histories of the American memoir or the Indian memoir, granting there are memoirs of the British in India, and a extended tradition of French memoirs. Beth Holmgren's edited collection of essays in succession The Russian Memoir begins with the realization that justifying the work means justifying the memoir and giving it a typological family circle Ranging across the ...