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Summer in Baden-Baden: A Novel by Tsypkin, Leonid
- Bookseller: Kazoo Books
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 28530
- Format: Hardback
- Book condition: nf / nf
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0811214842
- ISBN 13: 9780811214841
- Publisher: New Directions, NY
- Date published: 2001
- Pages: 146
- Size: 5.75 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
- Weight: 0.7 pounds
Description
New Directions, NY, 2001. Hardback. nf / nf. Second Printing. Near Fine/Near Fine hardcover with red and black photographic Dj protected by a Brodart cover. Translated from the Russian by Roger & Angela Keys. Introduction by Susan Sontag. 8.25 x 5.5 with 146 pp.
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
NF : Near fine condition
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Book summary
Published 20 years after the death of its author, SUMMER IN BADEN-BADEN begins in the form of a memoir: the narrator is traveling by train to the famed Black Forest spa, and en route he is reading the account by Dostoevsky's wife, Anna, of their years together. Simultaneously, it tells the story of the writer's marriage, and of the months in 1867 he and Anna, who was pregnant, spent in Baden-Baden, where Dostoevsky wrote, gambled, drank, and agonized over the direction his work was taking. Interwoven with these two stories are disquisitions on the characters in Dostoevsky's novels, his friends, and his anti-Semitism. Introduction by Susan Sontag. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
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