"Summer in Baden-Baden" is Leonid Tsypkin's beautiful and original cult classic - a love story of the rarest intensity by a 20th century Russian master. One bitterly cold winter in the 1970s, Leonid Tsypkin's obsession with Dostoyevsky leads him to Leningrad by train, so that he can see for himself where his hero died. As the train makes its way across Russia, a journal inspires Tsypkin to conjure up the summer of 1867, when Dosteyevsky and his young wife Anna travelled across Europe to Baden-Baden. The destructive demons that beset Dostoyevsky in his later life were in full force at this time, and man and wife battled for their very souls. Yet in Tsypkin's hands this elegy to the great Russian writer becomes a glorious and unforgettable love story. Praise for "Summer in Baden-Baden": "A remarkable fantasia ...written in a unique and unforgettable style". (James Wood, "Guardian"). "A hypnotic double narrative, a journey within a journey, both real and imagined, from the present to the past and back again, told in miraculous prose". ("Evening Standard"). "Luminous, extraordinary, magnificent". ("Literary Review"). Leonid Tsypkin was born in Minsk in 1926 of Russian-Jewish parents. "Summer in Baden-Baden" is the culmination of a passionate, clandestine literary vocation. A distinguished medical researcher by profession, Tsypkin never had even a measure of 'underground' fame. Twice denied permission to leave the Soviet Union with his family, he died of a heart attack in Moscow in 1982.

Summer in Baden Baden

Tsypkin, Leonid

Penguin

Summer in Baden-Baden

A lost masterpiece and one of the major achievements of Russian literature in the second half of the 20th century.Summer in Baden-Baden was acclaimed by The New York Review of Books as "a short poetic masterpiece" and by Donald Fanger in The Los Angeles Times as "gripping, mysterious and profoundly moving." A complex, highly original novel, Summer in Baden-Baden has a double narrative. It is wintertime, late December: a species of "now." A narrator―Tsypkinis on a train going to Leningrad. And it is also mid-April 1867. The newly married Dostoyevskys, Fyodor, and his wife, Anna Grigor'yevna, are on their way to Germany, for a four-year trip. This is not, like J. M. Coetzee's The Master of St. 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 resonates with the love of literature's disciple, Leonid Tsypkin, for Dostoyevsky. In a remarkable introductory essay (which appeared in The New Yorker), 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.

Literature & Fiction

Keys, Roge

Literary

New Directions

Jones, Angela

Contemporary

From the acclaimed author of Summer in Baden-Baden, a collection of short work finally in English.
Leonid Tsypkin’s novel Summer in Baden-Baden was hailed as an undiscovered classic of 20th-century Russian literature. The Washington Post claimed it “a chronicle of fevered genius,” and The New York Review of Books described it as “gripping, mysterious and profoundly moving.” In her introduction,Susan Sontag said: “If you want from one book an experience of the depth and authority of Russian literature, read this book.”
At long last, here are the remaining writings of Leonid Tsypkin: in the powerful novella Bridge Across the Neroch, the history of four generations of a Russian-Jewish family is seen through the lens of a doctor living in Moscow. In Norartakir, a husband and wife on vacation in Armenia bask in the view of Mt. Ararat and the ancient history of the land, until they are unceremoniously kicked out of their hotel and returned to Soviet reality. The remaining stories offer knowing windows into Soviet urban life. As the translator Jamey Gambrell says in her preface: "For Tsypkin's narrator, history is a tightrope to be walked every minute of every day, in both his internal and external world."

The Bridge Over the Neroch: And Other Works

Esta singular novela transcurre en dos planos temporales. Uno arranca en 1867 y recrea el viaje que Dostoievski y su joven esposa, Ana Grigorievna, hicieron por distintas capitales de Europa durante cuatro tormentosos años de enfermedad, pobreza, juego y lucha contra sus propios fantasmas, el otro recoge en un indefinido pr

Verano en Baden-Baden (Biblioteca Formentor) (Spanish Edition)

Genre Fiction

Seix-Barral

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