The Italics are Mine

The Italics are Mine

by NinaBerberova (Author)

Synopsis

This is the autobiography of Nina Berberova, who was born in St Petersburg in 1901, the only child of an Armenian father and a North Russian mother. After the Revolution, and the persecution of intellectuals which followed, she was forced to flee to Paris, where she was to remain for 25 years. There she formed part of a group of literary Russian emigres that included Gorky, Bunin, Svetaeva, Nabokov and Akhmatova, and earned a precarious living as a journalist, barely surviving the hardship and poverty of exile. In 1950 she left France for the United States to begin a new life with no money and no knowledge of English. She is now a retired Professor of Russian Literature at Princeton, and has belatedly been acclaimed for the short novels she wrote in the 1930s and '40s.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 600
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02 Dec 1993

ISBN 10: 0099338718
ISBN 13: 9780099338710

Media Reviews
The eloquent testimony of a doomed artistic generation, captured as indelibly as it is in Nabokov's fiction. --The Boston Globe From the Trade Paperback edition.