The Explosive World of Tatyana N. Tolstaya's Fiction

Helena Goscilo

Introduction; Chapter 1 Paradise, Purgatory, and Post-Mortems: The Lapsarian Myth as Universal Rite of Passage; Chapter 2 Language and the Soul’s Dark Night in Childhood; Chapter 3 Tolstayan Love as Surface Text; Chapter 4 The Eternal Feminine’s Liebestod Transposed to Baser Clef; Chapter 5 Monsters Monomaniacal, Marital, and Medical: Tolstaya’s Regenerative Use of Gender Stereotypes; Chapter 6 Perspective in Tolstaya’s Wonderland of Art; Chapter 7 Fantasy and Fatality: Narrative as Creative and Killing Strategy; Chapter 8 Tolstayan Times: Traversals and Transfers; Chapter 9 Tolstayan Tropes: Perils, Pleasures, and Epiphanies; Postscript;