LEADER 03959nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910961575603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612850059 010 $a9780773577947 010 $a0773577947 010 $a9781282850057 010 $a1282850059 010 $a9780773560086 010 $a0773560084 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773560086 035 $a(CKB)1000000000793222 035 $a(OCoLC)311308012 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10264294 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000281887 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11221711 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000281887 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10306195 035 $a(PQKB)10677410 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00221880 035 $a(CaPaEBR)424774 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3331852 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10269414 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL285005 035 $a(OCoLC)923232265 035 $a(DE-B1597)657553 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773560086 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/dcdq9v 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3331852 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3260472 035 $a(Perlego)3550867 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000793222 100 $a20070313d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMemoirs and madness $eLeonid Andreev through the prism of the literary portrait /$fFrederick H. White 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMontreal ;$aIthaca $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (x, 339 pages) $cillustrations, portraits 300 $a"Includes an annotated translation of A book about Leonid Andreev." 311 0 $a9780773530447 311 0 $a0773530444 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront Matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tLeonid Andreev through the Prism of the Literary Portrait --$tIntroduction --$tMaksim Gor?kii --$tKornei Chukovskii --$tAleksandr Blok --$tGeorgii Chulkov --$tBoris Zaitsev --$tNikolai Teleshov --$tEvgenii Zamiatin --$tAndrei Belyi --$tThe Literary Portrait --$tProjecting Personal Isolation --$t?He is not with them, he is with us, he is ours?: Belyi --$tThe Importance of Friendship and Sreda: Teleshov --$tCreative Energy and Manic Episodes: Chukovskii --$tInner Turmoil and the Dark Side of Depression: Chulkov --$tA Shared Sense of Chaos: Blok --$tThe Dreamer and the Mathematician: Gor?kii --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aMemoirs and Madness examines memoir as a literary genre, investigates the creation of Leonid Andreev's posthumous legacy by his contemporaries, and explores the possibility that Andreev, Russia's leading literary figure at the beginning of the twentieth century, suffered from mental illness. Frederick White's primary focus is A Book About Leonid Andreev (1922), the most important collection of memoirs dedicated to the Russian author, presented here in the first English translation. The agendas of the memoirists resulted in portraits that have influenced how Andreev is read and spoken about to the present day. White pays special attention to Andreev's history of mental illness, which the memoirists described with vague terms such as "creative energy" or "inner turmoil." Past scholarship has focused on philosophical and sociological factors in the author's life but this concentration on his mental health provides a fruitful approach to deciphering the literary portraits. 606 $aBiography as a literary form 606 $aAuthors, Russian$y20th century$vBiography 615 0$aBiography as a literary form. 615 0$aAuthors, Russian 676 $a891.733 700 $aWhite$b Frederick H.$f1970-$01651171 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910961575603321 996 $aMemoirs and madness$94366936 997 $aUNINA