The Ladies from St. Petersburg: Three Novellas: 983 (New Directions Paperbook) - Softcover

Berberova, Nina; Schwartz, Marian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811214362 ISBN 13: 9780811214360

Publisher: New Directions, 2000

Synopsis

A collection of 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.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Boston Review 12/98-1/99
These three short stories should establish Nina Berberova-who fled revolutionary Russia for a shaky emigre existence in Paris and New York-as Gogol's, Tolstoy's, and especially Chekhov's most vital inheritor. The spare, exquisite "Ladies from St. Petersburg" and "Zoya Andreyevna" (1927) begin where Chekhov left off, tracing the skittish flight of the threadbare Russian elite from the forces of history. "Big City" (1952) weds Berberova's pining Chekhovian precision to a fresh, kaleidoscopic modern vision. A bracing tonic against contemporary American fictional flab.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0811214362
• ISBN 13: 9780811214360
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 122