Ultimately, Tolstoy's “The Family of the Vourdalak” offers a meditation on the power of parody and creative appropriation that anticipates important literary-philosophical concepts that emerge in Russia in the second half of the nineteenth century. Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula by Frayling, Christopher and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at .uk. By putting forward the concept of vampiric narration to explain Tolstoy's mode of undermining his West European narrator's control, this article demonstrates the way this story comments on, and ultimately subverts, the discourse about imitation and influence that infiltrated Russian letters from West European constructs about its East.

Dracula, Prince of Many Faces: His Life and His Times by. Christopher Frayling, in his book Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula, discusses these papers extensively, and references in this paper relate to his. Christopher Frayling (Editor, Translator, Introduction) 4.01 avg rating 168 ratings. Powers of Darkness: The Lost Version of Dracula 9781468313376. Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula by. I argue that Tolstoy's emphatic historical references point to the story's central focus on Russia's relationship with Western Europe and the concomitant Russian anxieties about national identity and literary imitation. Vampyres : Lord Byron to Count Dracula 9780571167920, 0571167926. On the other hand, Christopher Frayling in his Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula (Faber and Faber, 1992) sees a neat line of development of the vampire idea through the 19th century from the beginnings of such fiction and culminating (so far as that century was concerned) in Dracula.

Tolstoy's “The Family of the Vourdalak,” while taking note of Tolstoy's extensive historical references and thus situating Tolstoy's vampire story in its literary and historical context. In this article, I examine the narrative and intertextual complexity of A.

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