Abstract: An analysis of the “Russian” tetralogy reveals that Dumur’s texts, rich in intertextual references to nineteenth-century Russian literature, are inscribed in the anti-Russian anti-Soviet discourse of the interwar years, taking up and reinterpreting established topoi (such as “Bolshevist contagion”). By way of his Russian heroes, Dumur administers a lesson in patriotism to his French public, reaffirming the norms and values of true “Frenchness”.
