Wladimir Troubetzkoy (10 October 1942 – 2 June 2009) was a French literary historian of Polish-Belarusian-Russian origin. Growing up as a member of the aristocratic Russian family

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in exile in France, but speaking the

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at home, he graduated with a degree in Literature from the

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and is a docteur d'État. He was Professor of Comparative literature at the University of Versailles (

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) and director of the Institute of Arts, Science, Culture and Multimedia (''Institut Universitaire Professionalisant Arts, Sciences Culture et Multimédia'').

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*''L'Aristocratie et le rôle de l'écrivain dans la littérature européenne de la première moitié du XIXe siècle'' (1989 iss.. *"De l'art d'accommoder les grands-mères: La Belle et le Chaperon." ''Littératures'' 24 (1991): 29-52 *''Le Double'', études recueillies par Jean Bessière ; avec la collab. de Antonia Fonyi, 1995. *''La Figure du double'', textes réunis et présentés par Wladimir Troubetzkoy. Paris : Didier érudition, 1995 *"Vladimir Nabokov's Despair: the reader as 'April's Fool'", ''Cycnos'' (12:2) 1995, 55–62. *''L'ombre et la différence : le double en Europe''. 1re éd. Paris : Presses universitaires de France, c1996 *''LiOtérature comparée'', sous la direction de Didier Souiller avec la collaboration de Wladimir Troubetzkoy ; avec la contribution de Dominique Budor... (Collection Premier cycle, ) Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 1997 *''Saint-Pétersbourg : mythe littéraire''. Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 2003. *''Fratries : frères et soeurs dans la littérature et les arts, de l'Antiquité à nos jours'', sous la direction de Florence Godeau et Wladimir Troubetzkoy ; ouvrage publié avec le concours du

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et de l'Université de Versailles-St. Quentin. (Société française de littérature générale et comparée. Congrès (31 : 2002 : Université de Versailles-Saint Quentin en Yvelines). Paris : Kimé, c2003.

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