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"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
(1841 - 1935)
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ZIN Product Number: 10301002
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 Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 0811214842
Release Date: Jan 11, 2001
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Summer in Baden-Baden, written between 1977 and 1980, is a lost masterpiece, one of the major achievements of Russian literature in the second half of the twentieth century, whose author, Leonid Tsypkin (1926-1982), never saw a single page of his literary work published during his lifetime." A complex, highly original novel written in a prose that suggests the intensity and daring of Jose Saramago and Thomas Bernhard (authors that Tsypkin could not, of course, have possibly read), Summer in Baden-Baden has a double narrative. It is wintertime, late December, no date given: a species of "now." A narrator - Tsypkin - is on a train going to Leningrad (once and future St. Petersburg). And it is mid-April 1867. The newly married Dostoyevskys, Fyodor, the great novelist, and his youthful wife, Anna Grigoryevna, are on their way to Germany, for a trip that will keep them abroad for four years. This is not, like M. J. Coetzee's The Master of Petersburg, a Dostoyevsky fantasy. Neither is it a docu-novel, although its author was obsessed with getting everything "right." Nothing is invented. Everything is invented. Dostoyevsky's reckless passions for gambling, for his literary vocation, for his wife, are matched by her all-forgiving love, which in turn rhymes with the love of literature's disciple, Leonid Tsypkin, for Dostoyevsky.
In a remarkable introductory essay, Susan Sontag explains why it is something of a miracle that Summer in Baden-Baden has survived, and celebrates the happy event of its publication in America with an account of Tsypkin's beleaguered life and the important pleasures of his marvelous novel.
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