Nina Berberova, Author Atheneum Books $14.95 (94p) ISBN 978-0-689-11989-7
Written in 1936 and published here for the first time, this slender novel is an elegant exposition of Russian temperament. The accompanist of the title is Sonechka, an 18-year-old girl, talented but impoverished and self-deprecating by reason of her
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Nina Berberova, Author Knopf Publishing Group $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-40281-7
Those who lament the passing of the golden age of Russian literature may now take heart--the American debut of Russian emigree Berberova (b. 1901) is marked by the psychological profundity, the painterly attention to detail and the exquisite...
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Nina Berberova, Author, Marian Schwartz, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $19.95 (122p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1377-6
The three novellas in this slim but potent collection explore the psychic price of immigration and the rigors of enduring hardship alone. Russian emigre Berbova (1901-1993) first moved to France in the 1920s, then settled in the U.S. in the 1950s,...
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Nina Berberova, Author, Marian Schwartz, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $23.95 (205p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1401-8
Russian migr writer Berberova, who died in 1993, is known primarily for her memoirs and her criticism. Marian Schwartz, the translator of this and previous works, helps to round out the picture with this novel, giving voice to Berberova's finely...
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Nina Berberova, Author, Marian Schwartz, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $23.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1416-2
Originally published in 1951 as a serial in Novyi Zhurnal, Soviet Russia's principal literary journal, Berberova's epic novel is a dark Little Women, a feminine Brothers Karamazov. Three half-sisters, each of whom emigrated from the Soviet Union to...
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Nina Berberova, Author, Marian Schwartz, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $14.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1473-5
Nina Berberova's (1901-1993) The Tattered Cloak, translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz, collects six stories dealing with Russian exiles of various backgrounds living in Paris just before World War II. ""The Resurrection of Mozart""...
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Nina Berberova, Author, Marian Schwartz, Translator Vintage Books USA $11 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-73366-9
Psychological acuity and a painterly attention to detail mark these six exquisite tales by Russian emigre Berberova, whose autobiographical The Italics Are Mine will be published by Knopf in April. (Apr.)
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Nina Berberova, Author, Marian Schwartz, Translator, Nina Berberova, Preface by , trans. from the Russian by Marian Schwartz. New Directions $24.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1481-0
The pursuit of fulfillment—monetary, psychological or romantic—is at the heart of all 13 of these fleet-footed and poignant short stories about life in a Paris suburb settled by Russian émigrés during the 1930s. Originally...
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Nina Berberova, Author, Robyn Marsack, Translator George Braziller $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8076-1408-2
This memoir by the St. Petersburg-born Berberova (1901-1993), a professor of Russian literature at Princeton University (The Italics Are Mine), will appeal most to those who are already familiar with her subject--intimately, at that. Only a couple...
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Nina Berberova, Author, Philippe Radley, Translator Vintage Books USA $16 (600p) ISBN 978-0-679-74537-2
Her novels and stories having been rediscovered to great acclaim in the West, Russian emigre Berberova surpasses herself with this mesmerizing autobiography that evokes, with unromantic candor, the world of her fiction--Paris from the 1920s through...
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