In his lengthy review of My Life (along with other Tolstaya publications) in Canadian Slavonic Papers, the eminent Tolstoy scholar Hugh McLean (2011) laments the fact that it has taken so long (almost a century after her death) to focus academic attention on Sofia Tolstaya, and that there has been no unified publication of her works, scattered as they are among dated journals or not published at all.
This book aims to help fill this lacuna by offering a critical introduction to her literary output as a writer in her own right, and presenting, for the first time, an anthology of her main artistic works, some in fresh English translation, and others never translated before.
Andrew Donskov (auteur et directeur de publication) est membre de la Société royale du Canada, professeur éminent et directeur fondateur du Groupe de recherche en études slaves de l’Université d’Ottawa. Il a signé et/ou dirigé plusieurs études critiques sur la littérature russe du dix-neuvième siècle.