Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Teffi; Chandler, Robert; Jackson, Anne Marie; France, Rose; Chandler, Elizabeth |
| Publisher: | NYRB Classics |
| Date: | 5/3/2016 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Early in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in in 1872, adopted the pen-name of Teffi, and it is as Teffithat she is remembered. In prerevolutionary Russia she was a literarystar, known for her humorous satirical pieces; in the 1920s and 30s, shewrote some of her finest stories in exile in Paris, recalling herunforgettable encounters with Rasputin, and her hopeful visit at agethirteen to Tolstoy after reading War and Peace. In thisselection of her best autobiographical stories, she covers a wide rangeof subjects, from family life to revolution and emigration, writers andwriting.
Like Nabokov, Platonov, and other great Russian prosewriters, Teffi was a poet who turned to prose but continued to writewith a poet’s sensitivity to tone and rhythm. Like Chekhov, she fuseswit, tragedy, and a remarkable capacity for observation; there are fewhuman weaknesses she did not relate to with compassion andunderstanding.
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