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PublisherNew York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10159017996X
ISBN-139781590179963
eBay Product ID (ePID)3038383466
Product Key Features
Book TitleTolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me : the Best of Teffi
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Russian & Former Soviet Union, Biographical
Publication Year2016
GenreFiction, Literary Collections
AuthorTeffi
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight8.4 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2016-004093
Reviews"[Teffi is] an inimitable presence in Russian literature, a genuine wonder." ---Georgy Ivanov "[Teffi] can write in more registers than you might think, and is capable of being heartbreaking as well as very funny. I wish she were still alive, and I could have met her. But then I realised she would have seen right through me. I can't recommend her strongly enough." --Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian
SynopsisEarly in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in St. Petersburg in 1872, adopted the pen-name of Teffi, and it is as Teffi that she is remembered. In prerevolutionary Russia she was a literary star, known for her humorous satirical pieces; in the 1920s and 30s, she wrote some of her finest stories in exile in Paris, recalling her unforgettable encounters with Rasputin, and her hopeful visit at age thirteen to Tolstoy after reading War and Peace . In this selection of her best autobiographical stories, she covers a wide range of subjects, from family life to revolution and emigration, writers and writing. Like Nabokov, Platonov, and other great Russian prose writers, Teffi was a poet who turned to prose but continued to write with a poet's sensitivity to tone and rhythm. Like Chekhov, she fuses wit, tragedy, and a remarkable capacity for observation; there are few human weaknesses she did not relate to with compassion and understanding.
LC Classification NumberPG3453.B8A2 2016
