Category Archives: Berberova

Second Glance: A Voice Displaced

By mbs | Published: October 10, 2008

"Second Glance: A Voice Displaced" by Karen Vanuska Last year Sovietologists and a few nonfiction book critics celebrated the publication of Lesley Chamberlain’s Lenin’s Private War: the Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia. Thanks to Chamberlain’s thorough research and translation of recently-released Soviet documents, Lenin’s exile of two boatloads of [...]

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Nina Berberova’s “Lost World”

By mbs | Published: October 10, 2008

"The Lost World" by Michael Frank Los Angeles Times, March 3, 2002 The story of Nina Berberova’s career has all the earmarks of a literary fable that might have been written by Henry James or her compatriot Vladimir Nabokov or even by Berberova herself, although it never was. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1901, [...]

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Nina Berberova, 92, Poet, Novelist and Professor

By mbs | Published: September 28, 2008

Nina Berberova, a Russian-born poet, novelist, playwright, critic and professor of literature whose biography is a classic of the Russian émigré Diaspora, died on Sunday at a nursing home in Philadelphia. She was 92.

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Moura, by Nina Berberova

By mbs | Published: October 9, 1926

Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg By Nina Berberova Translated by Marian Schwartz and Richard D. Sylvester New York Review Books, 2005 Baroness Maria Ignatievna Zakrevskaya Benckendorff Budberg hailed from the Russian aristocracy and lived in the lap of luxury—until the Bolshevik Revolution forced her to live by her wits. Thereafter her existence [...]

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The Billancourt Tales, by Nina Berberova

By mbs | Published: October 9, 1920

The Billancourt Tales By Nina Berberova Translated by Marian Schwartz New Directions, 2001; paperback ed. 2009 Thirteen newly discovered stories by the great Russian writer, translated into English for the first time. Now added to the quartet of books by Nina Berberova that New Directions has presented for the delight of American readers is this [...]

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Cape of Storms, by Nina Berberova

By mbs | Published: October 9, 1918

Cape of Storms By Nina Berberova Translated by Marian Schwartz New Directions, 2000 Cape of Storms, one of the great Russian writer’s most fascinating novels, was published serially in 1951 in the Novyi Zhurnal — and Nina Berberova herself, late in life, took the old migr journals off a shelf and handed them to distinguished [...]

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