Transnational Tolstoy: between the West and the world

Part 1: Facing West. Culture shock in Europe : occidentalism in Anna Karenina and Dostoevsky's The gambler ; "Vengeance is mine" : Stendhal's Italy and Anna Karenina ; Discordant histories, Napoleonic anniversaries : War and peace and Flaubert's Sentimental education ; Worldliness to world literature : Tolstoy between Goethe and Proust

Part 2: Outside the Soviet canon. "Realism of the New School" as "modern fiction" : Anna Karenina in English, 1900 to 1920 ; Realism as imagism : Nabokov "modernizes" Tolstoy ; Border writing : from national solidarity to toxic nationalism : Tolstoy and Stendhal as benchmarks for Malraux and Lampedusa ; Felt history in flux : Anna Karenina between realism and magical realism

Part 3: Into the world. "Show me the Zulu Tolstoy" : after 1991, who owns War and peace? ; Tolstoy and world literature, 1890 to 1912 to 2000 : from What Is art? to Hadji Murad and beyond ; Beyond the West, 1890-1955 : dialogues with Premchand, Mahfouz, and Gandhi ; Envisioning Islam in Hadji Murad : Holy War and peaceful romance

Conclusion: Between the West and the world.