Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me

By: Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler and Teffi and Anne Marie Jackson and Rose France

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Synopsis: Early 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781590179970
Related ISBNs:: 9781590179963
Publisher:: New York Review Books
Date of Addition:: 05/03/16
Copyrighted By:: Elizabeth Chandler, Rose France, Teffi, Anne Marie Jackson, Robert Chandler
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.