{"product_id":"9781441135681","title":"Transnational Tolstoy: Between the West and the World","description":"\u003ci\u003eTransnational Tolstoy\u003c\/i\u003e renews and enhances our understanding of Tolstoy's fiction in the context of \"World Literature,\" a term that he himself used in \u003ci\u003eWhat is Art?\u003c\/i\u003e It offers a fresh perspective on Tolstoy's fiction as it connects with writers and works from outside his Russian context, including Stendhal, Flaubert, Goethe, Proust, Lampedusa and Mahfouz. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFoster provides an interlocking series of cross-cultural readings ranging from nineteenth-century Germany, France, and Italy through the rise of modernist fiction and the crisis of World War II, to the growth of a worldwide literary outlook from 1960 onward. He emphasizes Tolstoy's writings with the most consistent international resonance: \u003ci\u003eWar and Peace\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Anna Karenina\u003c\/i\u003e, two of the world's most compelling novels. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTransnational Tolstoy\u003c\/i\u003e also discusses a shorter work, \u003ci\u003eHadji Murad\u003c\/i\u003e. It shares the earlier novels' historical sweep, social breadth, and subtle interplay among a large cast of characters. Along with bringing Tolstoy's gifts to bear on a Muslim protagonist, it also represents his most sustained attempt at world literature.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123752419568,"sku":"9781441135681","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781441135681_p0.jpg?v=1763793655","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781441135681","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}