Irina Reyfman is a professor of Russian literature at Columbia University. She is the author and editor of several books, including Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and Rank and Style: Russians in State Service, Life, and Literature.
Compelling, clever, and persuasive. Examining many Russian writers'
self-fashioning as members of the nobility and their careers in
public service, Reyfman admirably shows that the understanding of
rank should inflect all our arguments and histories of the writing
profession in Russia." - Luba Golburt, University of California,
Berkeley
"Indispensable reading for all who study Russian literature of the
Imperial period. Reyfman adds nuance and necessary reevaluation to
our understanding of how literary careers and literary biography
evolved in Russia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." -
Andrew Kahn, University of Oxford
"Reyfman's prose is clear and readable throughout, and How Russia
Learned to Write adds an intriguing new reading on canonical texts
of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is one of those
rare books you never knew you needed, but answers questions you
have always had." - Slavic Review
"Can be read profitably by a range of readers, from undergraduates
to specialists. . . . Reyfman's informed analysis forces us to
rethink received ideas." - Slavic and East European Journal
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