The Ladies From St. Petersburg: Three Novellas
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1998
New Directions Publishing Corporation (Verlag)
978-0-8112-1377-6 (ISBN)
New Directions Publishing Corporation (Verlag)
978-0-8112-1377-6 (ISBN)
Writing with a resonating clarity, unsentimental yet full of human sympathy, Nina Berberova stands as one of the treasures of twentieth-century literature and the continuance of the great Russian tradition. The Ladies from St. Petersburg contains three novellas which chronologically paint a picture of the dawn of the Russian Revolution, the flight from its turmoil, and the plight of an exile in a new and foreign place all of which Berberova knew from her own personal experience. In the title story the protagonists are taking a vacation, unaware that their lives are about to be irrevocably changed. In “Zoya Andreyevna,” an elegant, privileged woman, in headlong flight, falls ill among unfriendly strangers who resent her wealth and position even though she does not flaunt them. In “The Big City,” an emigrant lands in a surreal New York City, a place that is not yet, and may never be, his home.
Nina Nikolaevena Berberova (1901-1993) was born in St. Petersburg. She left Russia after the revolution in 1922, eventually settling in Paris in 1925 with her lover Vladislav Khodasevich. She moved to the U.S. in 1950 and taught at Yale and Princeton. In France she was honored as a Chevalier of the French Order of Arts and Letters.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.10.1998 |
|---|---|
| Übersetzer | Marian Schwartz |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 145 x 211 mm |
| Gewicht | 330 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8112-1377-3 / 0811213773 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8112-1377-6 / 9780811213776 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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