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“... essential nature was developed in a series of unpublished postwar autobiographical writings that Irina Paperno calls a ‘diary-theory’ – that is, ‘a record of daily life infused with theory’. Before the war, Freidenberg had made intermittent jottings (zapiski) about her life, but it wasn’t until after the beginning of the siege in September ...”

“... fate proved greater than my personality. I only tried to keep up with it.’ In this manner, as Irina Paperno has noted in Stories of the Soviet Experience, Soviet-era memoirists claimed ‘membership in history’s favourite class’, inscribing themselves into the ethos of the Russian intelligentsia.* That act of self-inscription tells us a great ...”

“... In her moving essay on the Tolstoy-Strakhov correspondence in CUP’s anniversary collection, Irina Paperno shows that Tolstoy winced at Strakhov’s hints that he was reinventing the wheel of moral philosophy, and recoiled from Strakhov’s urging him to finish Anna Karenina, then being serialised. Tolstoy told him it was ...”