The Italics Are Mine
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of literary memoir, The Italics Are Mine chronicles the extraordinary life of Nina Berberova, a Russian émigré writer who moved in the most rarefied intellectual and artistic circles of the twentieth century. With unflinching candor and a sharp, unsentimental eye, Berberova details her years in revolutionary Russia, her long exile in Paris among the great figures of Russian literature — including her intimate relationship with the poet Vladislav Khodasevich — and her eventual resettlement in the United States. The memoir presents a sweeping portrait of a vanished world, reconstructing the vibrant yet precarious existence of the Russian diaspora with the precision of a novelist and the authority of a witness. Written in a tone that is at once fiercely independent and deeply reflective, Berberova argues implicitly for the primacy of artistic integrity over political conformity, making her own survival and creative persistence a testament to that conviction. Essential reading for anyone drawn to Russian literature, European cultural history, or the art of memoir itself, this is a work of rare intelligence and enduring power.
Author: Nina Berberova
Format: Hardback
Published: 1969, Longmans
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of literary memoir, The Italics Are Mine chronicles the extraordinary life of Nina Berberova, a Russian émigré writer who moved in the most rarefied intellectual and artistic circles of the twentieth century. With unflinching candor and a sharp, unsentimental eye, Berberova details her years in revolutionary Russia, her long exile in Paris among the great figures of Russian literature — including her intimate relationship with the poet Vladislav Khodasevich — and her eventual resettlement in the United States. The memoir presents a sweeping portrait of a vanished world, reconstructing the vibrant yet precarious existence of the Russian diaspora with the precision of a novelist and the authority of a witness. Written in a tone that is at once fiercely independent and deeply reflective, Berberova argues implicitly for the primacy of artistic integrity over political conformity, making her own survival and creative persistence a testament to that conviction. Essential reading for anyone drawn to Russian literature, European cultural history, or the art of memoir itself, this is a work of rare intelligence and enduring power.